Malaika
Malaika is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 86 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 860.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 200686 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1968
- 2,584people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,584 girls have been named Malaika in the United States since 1968, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2006, with 86 births.
It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2006, within the last few years of data.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2005, and the 2000s alone account for 26%.
By decade
In 2006, its biggest year
Malaika was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2006 were Emily, Emma, Madison, Isabella and Ava. See all of 2006.
Names that rose and fell with Malaika
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rainapeak 2011
- Malenapeak 2004
- Ammypeak 2005
- Meenapeak 2008
- Rainypeak 2014
- Raenapeak 2005
- Xochitlpeak 2024
- Daylapeak 2022
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.