girls:
6k births since 1946
#2144 (62nd percentile)
boys:
5 births since 2012
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
6k births since 1946
#3502 (55th percentile)
The name Malka is the #3,502 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,992 recorded births since 1946. This represents the 54.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 54.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,144 (62.5% percentile) for all time with 5,987 births since 1946. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2012.
Malka first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1946 (1946 for girls and 2012 for boys). Birth data for Malka is available in 76 out of the 78 years between 1946 and 2023 (76 years for girls and 1 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 Malka has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Malka reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 24.3% percentile (ranked #717) with 135 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 135 births per million (ranked 24.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1993, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Malka is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #717 (24.3% percentile) with 135 births per million.
For boys, Malka reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #900) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2012.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Malka".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Malka is pronounced as MAHL-kuh, which has 2 syllables.
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