Maleika
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Maleika has been given to 29 babies in the U.S. since 1972. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1996, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Maleika, 1997
1 in 604,000
Maleika over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Maleika?
Maleika had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1997, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1997
- 1 in 604,000
- 6 of 3,624,676 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 290,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1997
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 418,740 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Maleika sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1997 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 418,740 children born in 1997 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maleika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Maleikas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Maleika was born before 1990 — so the typical Maleika is around 35 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 62.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 79.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 29
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 62.1% of all recorded uses (18).
Is Maleika 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1996 (7)
- Years since peak
- 29
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 14.3% average annual change
Spellings of Maleika
Maleika is not the most common spelling — Malia is, with 35.7% against Maleika's 0.03%.
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.
Maleika around the world
Where Maleika 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 & Wales2009–2009#5,556in 2009
- France2024–2024#5,910in 2024
- South Australia1996–1996#712in 1996
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Maleika by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Maleika
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Maleika
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.