Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Malik” in the USA?

Number of people named “Malik” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Malik” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Malik” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Malik” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Malik” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Malik” by birth year

This chart shows how “Malik” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1949 5 0.000001435 5 -100%
1952 6 0.00000158 6 -100%
1964 6 0.000001543 6 -100%
1965 8 0.000002207 8 -100%
1966 17 0.000004891 17 -100%
1967 21 0.000006186 21 -100%
1968 36 0.000010656 36 -100%
1969 51 0.000014675 51 -100%
1970 131 0.000036323 5 126 -92%
1971 138 0.000040206 6 132 -91%
1972 134 0.000042635 134 -100%
1973 131 0.000043422 5 126 -92%
1974 110 0.000036184 110 -100%
1975 123 0.000040737 123 -100%
1976 148 0.000048776 9 139 -88%
1977 151 0.000047537 7 144 -91%
1978 167 0.000052617 167 -100%
1979 147 0.000044184 147 -100%
1980 174 0.000050515 6 168 -93%
1981 136 0.000039313 5 131 -93%
1982 113 0.000032212 113 -100%
1983 115 0.000033205 115 -100%
1984 114 0.000032676 114 -100%
1985 129 0.000036143 5 124 -92%
1986 127 0.000035703 127 -100%
1987 154 0.000042711 154 -100%
1988 163 0.000044113 5 158 -94%
1989 223 0.000058006 223 -100%
1990 334 0.000084504 6 328 -96%
1991 368 0.000094474 368 -100%
1992 591 0.000153855 9 582 -97%
1993 773 0.000205025 7 766 -98%
1994 861 0.000231598 8 853 -98%
1995 2737 0.000747374 30 2707 -98%
1996 4050 0.001110442 24 4026 -99%
1997 3398 0.000937186 17 3381 -99%
1998 2710 0.000736772 16 2694 -99%
1999 2259 0.000611554 13 2246 -99%
2000 2098 0.000555041 14 2084 -99%
2001 1871 0.000499814 7 1864 -99%
2002 1659 0.000443786 1659 -100%
2003 1512 0.000397652 6 1506 -99%
2004 1382 0.000361693 5 1377 -99%
2005 1260 0.000327712 7 1253 -99%
2006 1191 0.000301047 1191 -100%
2007 1265 0.000316433 10 1255 -98%
2008 1217 0.000309617 1217 -100%
2009 1359 0.000355743 1359 -100%
2010 1201 0.000324969 9 1192 -99%
2011 995 0.000272022 7 988 -99%
2012 918 0.000251 5 913 -99%
2013 940 0.00025784 940 -100%
2014 848 0.000228795 6 842 -99%
2015 862 0.000232916 862 -100%
2016 842 0.000229509 842 -100%
2017 867 0.000242436 867 -100%
2018 873 0.000248301 873 -100%
2019 886 0.000255263 886 -100%
2020 836 0.000250256 836 -100%
2021 808 0.000238492 808 -100%
2022 807 0.000238536 807 -100%
2023 834 0.000251873 834 -100%
2024 736 0.000221121 736 -100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Malik:

  1. Malieka
  2. Malieya
  3. Maliha
  4. Maliik
  5. Malijah
  6. Malik (this page)
  7. Malika
  8. Malikah
  9. Malikai
  10. Malikaih
  11. Malike