Malikah
Malikah is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 197945 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1968
- 1,027people given the name
The story in the numbers
943 girls have been named Malikah in the United States since 1968, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1979, with 45 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1991, and the 1990s alone account for 28%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 84 boys have also been given it, 8.2% of the total.
By decade
In 1979, its biggest year
Malikah was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1979 were Jennifer, Melissa, Amanda, Jessica and Amy. See all of 1979.
Names that rose and fell with Malikah
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Zakiyyahpeak 1978
- Jamaicapeak 1977
- Akilahpeak 1993
- Chasitypeak 1976
- Atiyapeak 1981
- Jaimeepeak 1990
- Aieshapeak 1991
- Jameelahpeak 1978
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.