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Maleka

#16,382 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Mareta

Maleka has been given to 403 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #16,382 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1980, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Maleka, 2025

1 in 663,000

Maleka over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maleka: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Mareta

the Bible

What Maleka means

Maleka is a form of Mareta.

Origin, language, and formation

Maleka is used in Hawaiian. Its origins include the Bible.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mareta.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hawaiian, Maleka is pronounced /maˈle.ka/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 403 girls were recorded with the name Maleka between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 1980; its best national rank was #3,570 in 1980.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #15,691 in 2015 to #16,382 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Maleka?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,382
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maleka sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maleka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Malekas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maleka was born before 1990 — so the typical Maleka is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
33.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
403
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1990s — 33.0% of all recorded uses (133).

Is Maleka 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−691
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.83×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
21.7%
Peak was 1980 (23)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
45.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,570
1980

Spellings of Maleka

Maleka is not the most common spelling — Alexa is, with 38.3% against Maleka's 0.12%.

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 Maleka is used

Across 1910–2025, Maleka was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,933,357 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

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

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Maleka has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maleka around the world

Where Maleka 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
    2015–2015
    #5,730
    in 2015
  • France
    1954–1978
    #2,109
    in 1978
  • Canada
    2020–2020
    #3,347
    in 2020

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Maleka by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,382
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#3,570
1980
Peak year
1980
23 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
403
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Maleka

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

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Sibling names for Maleka

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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