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Mallika

Girls' name

A Jain saint, through मल्लिका

Mallika has been given to 332 babies in the U.S. since 1977. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2000, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Mallika, 2016

1 in 612,000

Mallika over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mallika: meaning, origin, and history

A Jain saint, through मल्लिका

Sanskrit

What Mallika means

Mallika belongs to the name family reached through Mallika → मल्लिका. Its meaning is “a Jain saint”.

Origin, language, and formation

Mallika is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Mallika comes through Sanskrit मल्लिका.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include मल्लिका.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 332 girls were recorded with the name Mallika between 1977 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2000; its best national rank was #5,082 in 2000.

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 Mallika?

Mallika had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 612,000
6 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only
1 in 295,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
423,922 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mallika 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 2016 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 423,922 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mallika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mallikas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mallika was born before 2000 — so the typical Mallika is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
45.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
332
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 45.8% of all recorded uses (152).

Is Mallika 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2000 (23)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,082
2000

Spellings of Mallika

Mallika is not the most common spelling — Malia is, with 39.7% against Mallika'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 Mallika is used

Across 1910–2025, Mallika was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 762,513 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Mallika has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mallika around the world

Where Mallika 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
    2001–2010
    #4,012
    in 2010
  • France
    1987–1999
    #4,738
    in 1999
  • South Australia
    1975–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Mallika by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,082
2000
Peak year
2000
23 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
332
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mallika

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

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Sibling names for Mallika

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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