girls:
45 births since 1973
#5671 (1st percentile)
boys:
10 births since 2005
#4576 (0th percentile)
overall:
55 births since 1973
#7684 (1st percentile)
The name Malikia is the #7,684 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 55 recorded births since 1973. This represents the 0.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,671 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 45 births since 1973. For boys, it ranks #4,576 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 2005.
Malikia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1973 (1973 for girls and 2005 for boys). Birth data for Malikia is available in 10 out of the 48 years between 1973 and 2020 (8 years for girls and 2 years for boys). 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 Malikia has been given predominantly to girls, with 81.8% of all recorded births being female. In 2020, 0.0% of babies named Malikia were girls. Interestingly, until around 2005, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1973 to 2004), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (100.0% boys from 2005 to 2020).
For girls, Malikia reached its peak popularity in 1973, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #738) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1998.
For boys, Malikia reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #901) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Malikia".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Malikia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.6% confident that Malikia is pronounced as muh-LIH-kee-uh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is muh-LEE-kee-uh, at 48.4% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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