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Malikah

The girl's name Malikah has been in the national records since 1968, with 1,033 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 13,208th. About 1,000 Malikahs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 33.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Malikah boys named Malikah

By the numbers

Total US births
1,033
Estimated living today
1,000
Median age today
33
Peak year
1979
Best rank
2,187th
Rank in 2025
13,208th
First recorded
1968
Girls / boys
949 / 84

How old the living Malikahs are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,033 babies given the name since 1968, about 1,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1992 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 Malikah is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Malikah is most concentrated in New Jersey (13.1×), Pennsylvania (4.0×), New York (3.2×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1979

The most popular girls’ names the year Malikah peaked:

All the names of 1979

Malikah elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Malikah 342 788th

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.

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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.