Maliek
#8,663 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Maliek has been given to 1,064 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #8,663 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1997, with 74 recorded.
Babies named Maliek, 2025
1 in 368,000
Maliek 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Maliek?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 190,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #8,663
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Maliek sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maliek. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Malieks were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Maliek was born before 2003 — so the typical Maliek is around 22 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 34.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 60.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,064
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 34.9% of all recorded uses (371).
Is Maliek 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
- +874
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,165
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,482
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.64×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 12.2%
- Peak was 1997 (74)
- Years since peak
- 28
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.6% average annual change
Spellings of Maliek
Maliek is not the most common spelling — Malik is, with 67.5% against Maliek's 1.4%.
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 Maliek is used
Across 1910–2025, Maliek was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 428,632 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3Florida1 in —
- 4Georgia1 in —
- 5Michigan1 in —
- 6North Carolina1 in —
- 7Ohio1 in —
- 8Pennsylvania1 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. Maliek has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Maliek around the world
Where Maliek 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 & Wales2000–2019#4,702in 2019
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Maliek by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Maliek
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Maliek
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.