Malik
The boy's name Malik has been in the national records since 1949, with 49,866 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 437th. About 49,000 Maliks are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 23.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Malik boys named Malik
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 49,866
- Estimated living today
- 49,000
- Median age today
- 23
- Peak year
- 1996
- Best rank
- 97th
- Rank in 2025
- 437th
- First recorded
- 1949
- Girls / boys
- 259 / 49,607
How old the living Maliks are
born that year still alive today
Of the 49,866 babies given the name since 1949, about 49,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 16,000 of them are children and 7 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2002 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin Arabic
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Maliks
- Malik ibn Anas (711–795)Arab Islamic jurist, theologian and hadith traditionist
- Malik-Shah I (1055–1092)During his rule as the Sultan of the Seljuk Empire from 1072 to 1092, Sultan Malik-Shah I played a crucial role in the history of medieval Islam.
- Malik Tillman (born 2002)German-American soccer player
- Malik Bendjelloul (1977–2014)Swedish film and documentary director
- Malik Harris (born 1997)German singer
- Malik Beasley (born 1996)American basketball player
- Malik-Shah II (1099–1105)The temporary ruler of the Seljuk Empire
- Malik Ambar (1549–1626)Indian warrior
People named Malik with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Malik is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Malik is most concentrated in the District of Columbia (3.9×), Maryland (2.5×), Georgia (2.2×), Florida (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1996
The most popular boys’ names the year Malik peaked:
Malik elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Malik +1 spelling | 13,345 | 175th |
| England and Wales boys | Malik | 2,453 | 264th |
| Switzerland boys | Malik | 1,993 | 28th |
| Belgium boys | Malik | 940 | 143rd |
| Italy boys | Malik | 283 | — |
| Norway boys | Malik | 230 | 284th |
| Austria boys | Malik | 137 | 58th |
| Ireland boys | Malik | 97 | 472nd |
| Scotland boys | Malik | 82 | 324th |
| Poland boys | Malik | 43 birth registrations | 421st |
| Northern Ireland boys | Malik | 7 | 339th |
| England and Wales girls | Malik | 3 | 4,373rd |
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.
Malik: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Malik | 1,584 | 0.127% | 17th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Malik | 393 | 0.090% | 76th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Malik | 16 | 0.025% | 83rd |
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, Malik is most concentrated in Thurgau, where 0.20% of children were given it – 114 of them.
Malik: rank by region
In 2025, Malik was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Malik | 161 | 36 |
| Wallonia | Malik | 191 | 15 |
| Brussels | Malik | 153 | 8 |
In 2025, Malik was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Malik | 269 | 3 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Malik appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (89th), Province of Antwerp (106th), Province of Liège (106th), Brussels-Capital Region (153rd), Province of Flemish Brabant (155th), Province of Hainaut (215th) and Province of East Flanders (264th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, 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.
Malik by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 505 | 19th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Malik 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 | Malik | 149 | 224 |
| Finland girls | Malik | — | 10 |
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.
Where Malik lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 438 men called Malik were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Malik | 29 | 0.663 | 238 |
| Ceuta | Malik | 6 | 0.142 | 575 |
| Tarragona | Malik | 19 | 0.043 | 1,360 |
| Girona | Malik | 17 | 0.041 | 1,445 |
| Barcelona | Malik | 99 | 0.034 | 1,518 |
| Araba/Álava | Malik | 5 | 0.030 | 1,658 |
Listed in 23 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 29 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Malik 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.