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Malika

#2,711 in 2025Girls' name

Queen

Malika has been given to 5,003 babies in the U.S. since 1966. In 2025 it ranked #2,711 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 183 recorded.

Babies named Malika, 2025

1 in 51,800

Malika over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Malika: meaning, origin, and history

Queen

Arabic

What Malika means

Malika means “queen”, associated with malika.

Origin, language, and formation

Malika is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Malika comes through Arabic مَلِكَة.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,967 girls were recorded with the name Malika between 1966 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 183 in 1996; its best national rank was #1,024 in 1996.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,091 in 2020 to #2,711 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,113 in 2015 to #2,711 in 2025.

In the United States, 36 boys were recorded with the name Malika between 1980 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1998; its best national rank was #6,875 in 1980.

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 Malika?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 51,800
64 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 25,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,711
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
35,906 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Malika 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 35,906 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Malika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Malikas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Malika was born before 1995 — so the typical Malika is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
27.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
36.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,967
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 27.7% of all recorded uses (1,377).

Is Malika 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
+133
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−620
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+402
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.19×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
35.0%
Peak was 1996 (183)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,024
1996

Spellings of Malika

Malika is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 46.1% against Malika's 0.40%.

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 Malika is used

Across 2016–2025, Malika was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 5,882 girls, against 1 in 20,771 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

117 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 5,882
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 12,500
  3. 3Maryland1 in 20,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 25,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 25,000
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 25,000
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 25,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 25,000

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.

Malika around the world

Where Malika 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
    1996–2025
    #1,197
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2009–2022
    #760
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2012–2024
    #898
    in 2024
  • France
    1943–2025
    #544
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2023
    #489
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #963
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1971–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Malika

People whose public names include Malika, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Malika by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,711
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 620
Best rank ever
#1,024
1996
Peak year
1996
183 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,967
Count in 2025
64

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,875
1980
Peak year
1998
8 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
36
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Malika

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

MalaikaMaliahMalinaMalenaMalaniMallieMalayaMaleahMaliyaMalayahMallikaMalorieMalakMalkaMalihaMaloryMalissaMalkyMalanaMaleaMaleiaMallorieMaleniMalori

Names with a curve like Malika

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Malika, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

SirenaKeturahStormyIlanaAkilahArianneMirellaSerinaJamilahJamilaIselaMecca

Sibling names for Malika

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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