Malyk
Malyk was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,405 among boys’ names; 404 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Malyk by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Malyk?
#9,405 among boys’ names, 2025
Malyk rose from #11,585 in 2015 to #9,405 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 4.7 per million.
29 babies in 1997, the peak
Malyk peaked in 1997, when 29 boys were given it, #2,719 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 28% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,405 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 15 | #6,075 | 8.7 |
| 2023 | 22 | #4,680 | 12.9 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,354 | 8.0 |
| 2021 | 19 | #5,045 | 10.9 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,379 | 9.8 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,629 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,389 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,376 | 4.2 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,585 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 7 | #10,325 | 3.6 |
| 2013 | 14 | #6,116 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,919 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 7 | #10,341 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,396 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 13 | #6,675 | 6.6 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,670 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,920 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,246 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,470 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,682 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,324 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 17 | #4,622 | 8.8 |
| 2001 | 18 | #4,397 | 9.3 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,477 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 25 | #3,242 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,319 | 8.4 |
| 1997 | 29 | #2,719 | 15.4 |
| 1996 | 23 | #3,164 | 12.1 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,751 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Malyk a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Malyk has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Malyk: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Malyk, and how old are they?
An estimated 398 Americans named Malyk and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 8 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 215 people named Malyk (0 women and girls, 215 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 309 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Malyk?
Malyk is a less common spelling of Malik: SSA has recorded 404 Malyk and 49,866 Malik since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 58,097 babies since 1880, Malyk is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 929 babies (<1%), the seventh most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Malyk
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Malyk and names like it
- Compare Malyk and MalikBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMalyk peaked in 1997.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Malyk since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Malyk.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Malyk alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.