Malik
Malik is ranked 429th among boys in 2024 (736 births). Its best rank was 97th, in 1996.
- Rank in 2024
- #429down 46 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 7360.04% of boys
- Peak year
- 19964,026 births
- Best rank
- #97in 1996
- Since 1949
- 48,867people given the name
The story in the numbers
48,867 boys have been named Malik in the United States since 1949, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1996, with 4,026 births — 0.21% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 372 → 429).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2001, and the 1990s alone account for 37%. It has spent 55 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 1 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Malik | |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | |
| 1950s | 6 | |
| 1960s | 139 | |
| 1970s | 1,348 | |
| 1980s | 1,427 | |
| 1990s | 17,951 | |
| 2000s | 14,765 | |
| 2010s | 9,205 | |
| 2020s | 4,021 |
In 1996, its biggest year
Malik was the 97th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1996 were Michael, Matthew, Jacob, Christopher and Joshua. See all of 1996.
Names that rose and fell with Malik
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kordellpeak 1998
- Rayquanpeak 1996
- Chandlerpeak 1999
- Tyriqpeak 1998
- Maliquepeak 1998
- Maliekpeak 1997
- Kaelanpeak 1998
- Tyriquepeak 1998
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.