girls:
5 births since 2019
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.8k births since 1997
#2932 (36th percentile)
overall:
1.8k births since 1997
#5940 (23rd percentile)
The name Malikai is the #5,940 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,815 recorded births since 1997. This represents the 23.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 23.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,932 (36.0% percentile) for all time with 1,810 births since 1997. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2019.
Malikai first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1997 (1997 for boys and 2019 for girls). Birth data for Malikai is available in 25 out of the 27 years between 1997 and 2023 (25 years for boys and 1 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 Malikai has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Malikai reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 15.7% percentile (ranked #768) with 81 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 81 births per million (ranked 15.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Malikai is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #768 (15.7% percentile) with 81 births per million.
For girls, Malikai reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #945) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Malikai".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Malikai. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 30.4% confident that Malikai is pronounced as MA-lih-kai, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MA-lih-KAI, at 28.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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