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Malka

#1,011 in 2025Girls' name

Queen

Malka has been given to 6,505 babies in the U.S. since 1946. In 2025 it ranked #1,011 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 264 recorded.

Babies named Malka, 2025

1 in 13,400

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Malka: meaning, origin, and history

Queen

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Malka means

Malka means “queen”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,500 girls were recorded with the name Malka between 1946 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 264 in 2024; its best national rank was #986 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,244 in 2020 to #1,011 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,324 in 2015 to #1,011 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Malka between 2012 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2012; its best national rank was #13,483 in 2012.

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.

How common is Malka?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 13,400
248 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 6,480
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,011
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
9,267 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Malka 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 9,267 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Malka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Malkas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Malka was born before 2009 — so the typical Malka is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
27.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,486
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 27.0% of all recorded uses (1,755).

Is Malka 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
−25
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+233
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+313
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.38×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
93.9%
Peak was 2024 (264)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#986
2024

Spellings of Malka

Malka is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 36.2% against Malka's 0.42%.

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 Malka is used

Across 1910–2025, Malka was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 2,941 girls, against 1 in 7,084 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in —).

034 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 2,941
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 3,125
  3. 3Maryland1 in 50,000
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Florida1 in —

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. Malka has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Malka around the world

Where Malka 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
    #1,229
    in 2025
  • France
    1976–2024
    #5,431
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,463
    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.

Notable people named Malka

People whose public names include Malka, 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.

Malka in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Malka. Linked forms have their own page here.

AmaliaAmalieAmeliaAmelieAmàliaAmáliaAmélie

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Malka by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,011
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 233
Best rank ever
#986
2024
Peak year
2024
264 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,500
Count in 2025
248

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#13,483
2012
Peak year
2012
5 that year
First recorded
2012
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Malka

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

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Names with a curve like Malka

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

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Sibling names for Malka

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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