Malek
Malek reached its high-water mark in 2023 at number 1,271, and has been recorded 3,092 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,466th. About 3,000 Maleks are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Malek boys named Malek
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,092
- Estimated living today
- 3,000
- Median age today
- 14
- Peak year
- 2023
- Best rank
- 1,271st
- Rank in 2025
- 1,466th
- First recorded
- 1974
- Girls / boys
- 6 / 3,086
How old the living Maleks are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,092 babies given the name since 1974, about 3,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,900 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Maleks
- Malek Jaziri (born 1984)Tunisian tennis player
- Malek Jahan Khanom (1805–1873)Regent of Persia, Qajar queen mother and princess
- Malek Mouath (born 1981)Saudi Arabian footballer
- Malek Bennabi (1905–1973)Algerian philosopher
- Malek Rahmati (1982–2024)Iranian politician
- Malek Jandali (born 1972)Award-winning composer & pianist
- Malek Ashraf (1344–1357)Chupanid ruler
People named Malek with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Malek is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Malek is most concentrated in Michigan (3.4×), Florida (2.9×), California (2.2×), New York (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2023
The most popular boys’ names the year Malek peaked:
Malek elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Malek | 2,695 | 641st |
| France girls | Malek +1 spelling | 1,195 | 730th |
| England and Wales boys | Malek | 317 | 939th |
| Italy girls | Malek | 307 | — |
| Italy boys | Malek | 274 | — |
| Switzerland boys | Malek | 134 | 572nd |
| Belgium boys | Malek | 71 | 728th |
| Belgium girls | Malek | 40 | 840th |
| Ireland boys | Malek | 17 | 631st |
| England and Wales girls | Malek | 16 | 3,185th |
| Poland boys | Malek | 11 birth registrations | 581st |
| Scotland boys | Malek | 6 | 490th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Malek: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Malek | 84 | 0.007% | 480th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Malek | 47 | 0.011% | 381st |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Malek | 3 | 0.005% | 173rd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Malek is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 33 of them.
Malek: rank by region
In 2024, Malek was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Malek | 768 | 6 |
In 2024, Malek was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Malek | 8 | 1 |
In 2025, Malek was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Malek | 312 | 2 |
In 2024, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Malek appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (345th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Malek by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 117 | 166th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Malek among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Malek | 41 | 56 |
| Finland girls | Malek | 5 | 6 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Malek against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.