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Maleek

#3,419 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Maleek has been given to 2,086 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #3,419 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1997, with 90 recorded.

Babies named Maleek, 2025

1 in 97,500

Maleek 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maleek: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maleek means

Maleek is a given name.

The naming story behind Maleek

Wikidata records Maleek as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q98777003, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,086 boys were recorded with the name Maleek between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 90 in 1997; its best national rank was #1,277 in 1997.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,641 in 2020 to #3,419 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,588 in 2015 to #3,419 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 Maleek?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 97,500
34 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 50,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,419
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
67,586 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maleek 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 67,586 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maleek. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maleeks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maleek was born before 2007 — so the typical Maleek is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
32.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
69.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,086
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 32.5% of all recorded uses (677).

Is Maleek 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
−225
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−778
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−831
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
37.8%
Peak was 1997 (90)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,277
1997

Spellings of Maleek

Maleek is not the most common spelling — Malik is, with 65.4% against Maleek's 2.7%.

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 Maleek is used

Across 1910–2025, Maleek was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 156,233 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 50,000
  2. 2New York1 in 50,000
  3. 3Maryland1 in 100,000
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 100,000
  5. 5California1 in —
  6. 6Georgia1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Michigan1 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. Maleek has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maleek around the world

Where Maleek 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
    1998–2025
    #1,406
    in 2025
  • France
    2017–2025
    #4,277
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1998–2024
    #1,536
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2007–2007
    #680
    in 2007

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.

Maleek by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,419
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 778
Best rank ever
#1,277
1997
Peak year
1997
90 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,086
Count in 2025
34

Names similar to Maleek

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

MalikiMaliekMalikaiMaliqueMalakiMalcomMalakhiMalekMalickTyreekMalvinMaloneMaliqMalachaiMalachyMalichiMalakyeMalykMalosiMalikyeMalloryMalikhiMalakMalekai

Names with a curve like Maleek

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Maleek, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KamilCaelanBraytonKeionDemitriMckayTyrenSahilRomelloYonatanKollinDaylan

Sibling names for Maleek

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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