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Maulik

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Maulik has been given to 15 babies in the U.S. since 1994. 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 1994, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Maulik, 2013

1 in 729,000

Maulik over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maulik: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Sanskrit

What Maulik means

Maulik is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Maulik is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 15 boys were recorded with the name Maulik between 1994 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1994; its best national rank was #9,757 in 1994.

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 Maulik?

Maulik had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 729,000
5 of 3,645,938 births
Among boys only
1 in 378,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
505,435 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maulik 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 2013 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 505,435 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maulik. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mauliks were born

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

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
33.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
15
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 33.3% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Maulik 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 1994 (5)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#9,757
1994

Spellings of Maulik

Maulik is not the most common spelling — Malik is, with 62.9% against Maulik's 0.02%.

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.

Maulik around the world

Where Maulik 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
    2012–2012
    #3,987
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Maulik by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,757
1994
Peak year
1994
5 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
15
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Maulik

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

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Sibling names for Maulik

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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