Malikai
#1,416 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Malikai has been given to 2,088 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #1,416 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 148 recorded.
Babies named Malikai, 2025
1 in 25,700
Malikai 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Malikai?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 25,700
- 129 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 13,200
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,416
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 17,814 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Malikai 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 17,814 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Malikai. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Malikais were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Malikai was born before 2018 — so the typical Malikai is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 39.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 99.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,083
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 39.8% of all recorded uses (830).
Is Malikai 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
- −82
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −139
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +488
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.68×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 87.2%
- Peak was 2022 (148)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 15.0% average annual change
Spellings of Malikai
Malikai is not the most common spelling — Malik is, with 54.7% against Malikai's 2.3%.
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 Malikai is used
Across 2016–2025, Malikai was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 18,896 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in 10,000
- 2Texas1 in 12,500
- 3California1 in 14,286
- 4North Carolina1 in 16,667
- 5Indiana1 in 20,000
- 6Kentucky1 in 20,000
- 7Arizona1 in 25,000
- 8Kansas1 in 25,000
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.
Malikai around the world
Where Malikai 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 & Wales2004–2025#2,440in 2025
- Canada2007–2024#1,536in 2024
- South Australia2008–2012#771in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Malikai by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Malikai
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Malikai
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Malikai, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Malikai
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.