girls:
11 births since 1996
#5705 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.9k births since 1989
#2859 (38th percentile)
overall:
1.9k births since 1989
#5838 (25th percentile)
The name Malique is the #5,838 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,928 recorded births since 1989. This represents the 24.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 24.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,859 (37.6% percentile) for all time with 1,917 births since 1989. For girls, it ranks #5,705 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 1996.
Malique first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1989 (1989 for boys and 1996 for girls).
The name Malique has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Malique reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 16.0% percentile (ranked #668) with 66 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 66 births per million (ranked 16.0% percentile). Despite a low point around 2018, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Malique ranks #901 for boys (1.1% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 12.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Malique reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #897) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2001.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Malique".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Malique. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Malique is pronounced as muh-LEEK, which has 2 syllables.
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