girls:
259 births since 1970
#5457 (4th percentile)
boys:
48.1k births since 1949
#513 (89th percentile)
overall:
48.4k births since 1949
#1101 (86th percentile)
The name Malik is the #1,101 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 48,378 recorded births since 1949. This represents the 85.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 85.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #513 (88.8% percentile) for all time with 48,119 births since 1949. For girls, it ranks #5,457 (4.5% percentile) for all time with 259 births since 1970.
Malik first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1949 (1949 for boys and 1970 for girls). Birth data for Malik is available in 62 out of the 75 years between 1949 and 2023 (62 years for boys and 28 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Malik has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Malik reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 87.6% percentile (ranked #97) with 2,009 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 2,009 births per million (ranked 87.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Malik ranks #359 for boys (60.7% percentile) with 454 births per million, which is 22.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Malik reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 2.9% percentile (ranked #824) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 16 births per million (ranked 2.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Malik".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Malik. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 33.3% confident that Malik is pronounced as muh-LEEK, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAH-lihk, at 23.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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