Maleko

#10,303 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Mark

Maleko has been given to 97 babies in the U.S. since 1995. In 2025 it ranked #10,303 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Maleko, 2025

1 in 474,000

Maleko over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maleko: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Mark

the Bible

What Maleko means

Maleko is a form of Mark.

Origin, language, and formation

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mark and Mareko.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hawaiian, Maleko is pronounced /maˈle.ko/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 97 boys were recorded with the name Maleko between 1995 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2015; its best national rank was #7,834 in 2015.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,834 in 2015 to #10,303 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 Maleko?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 474,000; 7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 244,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #10,303; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 328,272 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Maleko 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maleko. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Malekos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maleko was born before 2017 — so the typical Maleko is around 8 today.

Median birth year: 2017; About 8 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 48.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 89.7%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 97; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 48.5% of all recorded uses (47).

Is Maleko 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: −768; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: −2,469; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.70×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 70.0%; Peak was 2015 (10)
Years since peak: 10; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 36.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #7,834; 2015

Spellings of Maleko

Maleko is not the most common spelling — Mateo is, with 61.2% against Maleko's 0.05%.

Mateo61.2%126,693
Malik24.0%49,607
Malaki2.3%4,786
Alek2.2%4,563
Marko2.1%4,439
Maceo1.5%3,195
Marek1.5%3,136
Malek1.5%3,086

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 Maleko is used

Across 1910–2025, Maleko was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 113,262 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Hawaii1 in 100,000

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. Maleko has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maleko by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #10,303
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #7,834; 2015
Peak year: 2015; 10 that year
First recorded: 1995
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 97
Count in 2025: 7

Names similar to Maleko

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

Malhar Malloy Malosi Malakia Malijah Maliik Malacai Malone Malikiah Malaky Mali Malyki Malekai Malo Malike Malak Malick Maliky Malikhi Malcum Maleke Malcome Maleak Malcomb

Sibling names for Maleko

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

For a sister

Annabell Abagail Rhianna Alysa Adelle Sydnie Kendyl Anabel

For a brother

Aaden Kale Caesar Brennen Hamilton Tobin Jerimiah Jorden

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