Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1989–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.
Malaki was used most in 2007, when 278 babies were given the name. 1989 is the earliest year with at least five recorded births. It reaches the top 1,000 in 10 years of the record.
The 2025 position is #1,256, on 158 births. Over ten years the count has fallen 24%. Year on year the rank improved by 115.
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.
How many people are named Malaki?
About 4,700 people named Malaki are alive in the United States today. SSA has recorded 4,791 births under the name since 1880.
This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is
multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table.
How the estimate works.
How old is the average Malaki?
Half of living Malakis are older than 14, half younger. The 2010s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Malaki a millennial-era name.
Your Malaki
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.
Where Malaki is most common
Malaki is 2.3× as common in Tennessee as it is nationally. Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio follow.
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Malaki is over-represented, 2016–2025.
The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.