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How popular is “Malikah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Malikah” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Malikah” 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 “Malikah” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Malikah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Malikah” 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
1968 5 0.00000148 5 100%
1969 7 0.000002014 7 100%
1970 10 0.000002773 10 100%
1971 6 0.000001748 6 100%
1972 6 0.000001909 6 100%
1974 6 0.000001974 6 100%
1975 5 0.000001656 5 100%
1976 36 0.000011864 36 100%
1977 43 0.000013537 43 100%
1978 38 0.000011973 38 100%
1979 45 0.000013526 45 100%
1980 36 0.000010451 36 100%
1981 41 0.000011852 41 100%
1982 15 0.000004276 15 100%
1983 28 0.000008085 28 100%
1984 34 0.000009746 34 100%
1985 17 0.000004763 17 100%
1986 20 0.000005623 20 100%
1987 12 0.000003328 12 100%
1988 20 0.000005413 20 100%
1989 12 0.000003121 12 100%
1990 17 0.000004301 17 100%
1991 34 0.000008729 34 100%
1992 32 0.000008331 32 100%
1993 40 0.000010609 40 100%
1994 25 0.000006725 25 100%
1995 33 0.000009011 33 100%
1996 24 0.00000658 24 100%
1997 29 0.000007998 29 100%
1998 19 0.000005166 19 100%
1999 14 0.00000379 14 100%
2000 15 0.000003968 15 100%
2001 13 0.000003473 13 100%
2002 17 0.000004548 17 100%
2003 13 0.000003419 8 5 23%
2004 11 0.000002879 11 100%
2005 15 0.000003901 10 5 33%
2006 23 0.000005814 12 11 4%
2007 13 0.000003252 6 7 -8%
2008 23 0.000005851 10 13 -13%
2009 5 0.000001309 5 -100%
2010 21 0.000005682 12 9 14%
2011 24 0.000006561 13 11 8%
2012 16 0.000004375 11 5 38%
2013 17 0.000004663 12 5 41%
2014 9 0.000002428 9 100%
2015 10 0.000002702 10 100%
2016 6 0.000001635 6 100%
2017 17 0.000004754 9 8 6%
2018 5 0.000001422 5 100%
2020 6 0.000001796 6 100%
2021 14 0.000004132 14 100%
2022 9 0.00000266 9 100%
2023 8 0.000002416 8 100%
2024 8 0.000002403 8 100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Malikah:

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