Malique
#7,488 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Malique has been given to 1,963 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #7,488 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 133 recorded.
Babies named Malique, 2025
1 in 301,000
Malique 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Malique?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 301,000
- 11 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 155,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #7,488
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 208,901 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Malique 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Malique. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Maliques were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Malique was born before 2003 — so the typical Malique is around 22 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 40.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 60.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,952
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 40.6% of all recorded uses (792).
Is Malique 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
- −3,097
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −3,506
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −4,006
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.34×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 8.3%
- Peak was 1998 (133)
- Years since peak
- 27
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.0% average annual change
Spellings of Malique
Malique is the most-used spelling, taking 51.7% of the 3,772 babies given a near-identical spelling.
Where Malique is used
Across 1910–2025, Malique was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 148,845 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in 50,000
- 2Georgia1 in 100,000
- 3Maryland1 in 100,000
- 4North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 5New York1 in 100,000
- 6Virginia1 in 100,000
- 7California1 in —
- 8Illinois1 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. Malique has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Malique around the world
Where Malique 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 & Wales1996–2025#3,256in 2025
- France1971–1971#2,153in 1971
- Canada1996–2010#2,386in 2010
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.
Malique by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Malique
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Malique
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.