Maliki

#4,807 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Maliki has been given to 1,181 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #4,807 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 79 recorded.

Babies named Maliki, 2025

1 in 158,000

Maliki over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 81,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,807
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maliki 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 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maliki. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Malikis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maliki was born before 2011 — so the typical Maliki is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,181
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Choose a decade

2010s — 40.1% of all recorded uses (474).

Is Maliki 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
+554
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,422
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,518
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.36×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
26.6%
Peak was 2005 (79)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,701
2005

Spellings of Maliki

Maliki is not the most common spelling — Malik is, with 56.8% against Maliki'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 Maliki is used

Across 1910–2025, Maliki was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 558,223 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Indiana1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Kentucky1 in —
  7. 7Michigan1 in —
  8. 8North Carolina1 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. Maliki has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maliki around the world

Where Maliki 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
    2005–2020
    #4,608
    in 2020
  • France
    1987–2025
    #5,289
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2024–2024
    #3,231
    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.

Maliki by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,807
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,422
Best rank ever
#1,701
2005
Peak year
2005
79 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,181
Count in 2025
21

Names similar to Maliki

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Sibling names for Maliki

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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