Malaika

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Malaika: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Malaika: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #256 in 2004, and it stood at #790 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
32times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#256highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3126
1997	#1666
1998	#2165
1999	#1107
2000	#804
2001	#612
2002	#603
2003	#356
2004	#256
2005	#266
2006	#275
2007	#314
2008	#336
2009	#331
2010	#406
2011	#398
2012	#414
2013	#445
2014	#448
2015	#549
2016	#594
2017	#701
2018	#689
2019	#806
2020	#637
2021	#688
2022	#839
2023	#813
2024	#811

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #790 among girls in Scotland, #811 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3126 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #256 among girls in England and Wales, in 2004 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #811 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Malaika appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 2,262 births with the name.

Malaika across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Malaika's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3126 (1996)	#256 (2004)	#811 (2024)	29 of 29	2,262 (1996–2024)	170 (2004)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#937 (2011)	#751 (2015)	#751 (2015)	2 of 5	7 (2011–2015)	4 (2015)

Malaika by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Malaika in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	39	4 of 10	10
2000sbusiest	1,140	10 of 10	114
2010s	837	10 of 10	84
2020s	246	5 of 10	49

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 114 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2003 and 2004, when recorded births rose by 65, from 105 to 170.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Malaika appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #256 in England and Wales in 2004.

Malaika's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#811	46	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#813	44	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#839	42	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#688	55	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#637	59	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#806	46	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#689	58	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#701	58	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#594	71	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#549	79	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#448	97	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#445	94	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#414	110	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#398	115	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#406	109	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#331	133	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#336	133	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#314	144	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#275	170	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#266	169	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#256	170	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#356	105	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#603	46	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#612	42	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#804	28	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1107	18	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2165	7	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1666	10	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3126	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#751	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #256, first reached in 2004.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 170 births, registered in England and Wales in 2004.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2011, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Malachi · #191, 31y
Malachy · #123, 59y
Malaikah · #985, 24y
Malak · #265, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Alessandro · #256, 31y
Mathilda · #256, 30y
Emilee · #255, 28y
Karolis · #257, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Mathilda · #256, 30y
Ajay · #257, 29y
Emilee · #255, 28y
Hauk · #257, 28y

Malaika was ranked #256 in England and Wales · Girls in 2004. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Malaika and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Malaika without appearing here.

Malaika moved ahead of

Therese Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2165 and #2165 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #1107 and #3900.
Amalie Compare
In 1996 they stood at #3126 and #2096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1666 and #3824.
Jeanette Compare
In 1996 they stood at #3126 and #1914 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1666 and #3824.
Dylan Compare
In 1997 they stood at #3126 and #2350 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #2165 and #3848.

Moved ahead of Malaika

Blake Compare
In 2016 they stood at #594 and #768 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #701 and #499.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #806 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #637 and #460.
Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #398 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #414 and #284.

Moved the opposite way to Malaika

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Malaika went from #3126 to #811 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Malaika went from #3126 to #811 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Malaika went from #3126 to #811 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Malaika went from #3126 to #811 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Malaika

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Malaika went from #3126 to #811 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Malaika went from #3126 to #811 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Malaika went from #3126 to #811 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Malaika went from #3126 to #811 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #256 in England and Wales in 2004. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Malaika

Malaika at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Malaika across 2 official records

Malaika by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Malaika appears in

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Malaika at a glance

Malaika across 2 official records

Malaika by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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