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Maliq

#11,498 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Maliq has been given to 785 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #11,498 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 64 recorded.

Babies named Maliq, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maliq: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maliq means

Maliq is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Maliq is used in Albanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 785 boys were recorded with the name Maliq between 1994 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 64 in 2002; its best national rank was #1,802 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,641 in 2020 to #11,498 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,946 in 2015 to #11,498 in 2025.

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 Maliq?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,498
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maliq 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maliq. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maliqs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maliq was born before 2006 — so the typical Maliq is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
45.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
785
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 45.0% of all recorded uses (353).

Is Maliq 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
−4,401
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−6,857
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7,552
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.22×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
9.4%
Peak was 2002 (64)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,802
2002

Spellings of Maliq

Maliq is not the most common spelling — Mario is, with 46.9% against Maliq's 0.24%.

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 Maliq is used

Across 1910–2025, Maliq was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 863,114 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —
  5. 5Virginia1 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. Maliq has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maliq around the world

Where Maliq 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
    2001–2021
    #3,451
    in 2021
  • Canada
    2022–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    2007–2007
    #680
    in 2007

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.

Maliq by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,498
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6,857
Best rank ever
#1,802
2002
Peak year
2002
64 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
785
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Maliq

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

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Sibling names for Maliq

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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