Malika Girl
How popular is Malika?
#2,691 girl name in 2025
64 baby girls were named Malika in the US in 2025, making it the 2691st most popular girl name.
Malika popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #2,691 for girls (▲ 128 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 64 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+19% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #3,092 in 2015, #2,078 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1996 (183 girls) |
| Highest rank | #1,018 in 1996 |
| First recorded | 1966 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Malika counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Malika family of names ranked #1,954 for girls in 2025 (#2,023 the year before), with 70 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Malika | 64 | 91% |
| Malikah | 6 | 9% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Malika is most popular
Babies named Malika per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- New York: 0.1 per 1,000 (56 girls)
- Pennsylvania: 0.1 per 1,000 (16 girls)
- Massachusetts: 0.0 per 1,000 (6 girls)
- Wisconsin: 0.0 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- Maryland: 0.0 per 1,000 (5 girls)
Malika by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 30 | #3,101 |
| 1970s | 819 | #1,038 |
| 1980s | 813 | #1,277 |
| 1990s | 1,377 | #1,018 |
| 2000s | 740 | #1,646 |
| 2010s | 729 | #2,109 |
| 2020s | 459 | #2,078 |
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Questions
- Is Malika a boy or girl name?
- Malika is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Malika were girls.
- How popular is the name Malika?
- 64 baby girls were named Malika in the US in 2025, making it the 2691st most popular girl name.
- When was Malika most popular?
- Malika peaked in 1996, when 183 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #1,018 in 1996.
- How many people are named Malika?
- 5,003 babies have been named Malika in the US since 1880. We estimate about 4,901 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 30.
- Where is Malika most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Malika was most common in New York, at 0.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.