Malick

#4,634 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Malick has been given to 626 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #4,634 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1997, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Malick, 2025

1 in 151,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Malick?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 77,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,634
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Malick 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 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Malick. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Malicks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Malick was born before 2009 — so the typical Malick is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
32.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
626
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 32.9% of all recorded uses (206).

Is Malick 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
+726
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+519
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,007
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.38×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
68.8%
Peak was 1997 (32)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,526
1997

Spellings of Malick

Malick is not the most common spelling — Malik is, with 43.9% against Malick's 0.55%.

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 Malick is used

Across 1910–2025, Malick was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 144,824 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Malick has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Malick around the world

Where Malick 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
    1996–2024
    #3,255
    in 2024
  • France
    1948–2025
    #599
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1997–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024

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.

Malick by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,634
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 519
Best rank ever
#2,526
1997
Peak year
1997
32 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
626
Count in 2025
22

Names similar to Malick

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Sibling names for Malick

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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