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How popular is the name Malika?
Births per year, rank history and how many Malikas are alive today.
Malika (female) is a rare girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 1197th in 2025 and given to 27 babies. This spelling of the name peaked in 2007, when 62 babies were given the name, the 578th most popular that year. It has declined since 2007; the 2025 figure is roughly 44% of its peak. Malika is one spelling of a name also recorded as Malikah; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Malika you are most likely to meet is around 21 years old. Half of all Malikas born in England and Wales are between 10 and 22, and there are at least 1,500 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Malika - on average, only one in every 210 such rooms contains a Malika.
How many babies are named Malika each year?
Includes all spellings: Malika, Malikah. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Malika spelling rank?
Where does the Malikah spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Malika most popular?
Malika peaked in 2004, when 90 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Malika?
At least 1,500 people named Malika in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Malika?
Most living Malikas are between 10 and 22; the most common age is about 21.
Is Malika becoming more or less popular?
Declining: recent figures are a fraction of the 2004 peak.