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Maalik

#7,480 in 2025Boys' name

Owner, possessor, master

Maalik has been given to 554 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #7,480 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1995, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Maalik, 2025

1 in 301,000

Maalik over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maalik: meaning, origin, and history

Owner, possessor, master

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maalik means

Maalik means “owner, possessor, master”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 554 boys were recorded with the name Maalik between 1989 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 35 in 1995; its best national rank was #2,272 in 1995.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,226 in 2020 to #7,480 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,170 in 2015 to #7,480 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Maalik?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,480
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maalik sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maalik. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maaliks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maalik was born before 2004 — so the typical Maalik is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
33.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
554
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Choose a decade

2000s — 33.0% of all recorded uses (183).

Is Maalik rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+619
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,746
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,310
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.79×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
31.4%
Peak was 1995 (35)
Years since peak
30
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,272
1995

Spellings of Maalik

Maalik is not the most common spelling — Malik is, with 63.0% against Maalik's 0.70%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Maalik is used

Across 1910–2025, Maalik was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,535,719 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Maalik has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maalik around the world

Where Maalik ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2025
    #2,133
    in 2025
  • France
    2019–2025
    #3,742
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2007–2017
    #2,308
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    2000–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Maalik by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,480
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,746
Best rank ever
#2,272
1995
Peak year
1995
35 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
554
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Maalik

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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