Malika

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Malika: Recorded since 1958, with a gap of 11 years, it reached #370 in 1961, and it stood at #898 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
61times a registrar ranked it
67years from first to last
#370highest recorded position
15groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Malika's record

Absent from every published list for 11 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1168
1997	#1365
1998	#995
1999	#1018
2000	#833
2001	#871
2002	#890
2003	#637
2004	#565
2005	#680
2006	#639
2007	#578
2008	#859
2009	#638
2010	#655
2011	#989
2012	#1037
2013	#813
2014	#1040
2015	#1057
2016	#1013
2017	#1002
2018	#1013
2019	#1039
2020	#1065
2021	#840
2022	#982
2023	#921
2024	#1491

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 26 of the 66 years from 1958 to 2023.

In 2024: #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1491 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1958–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1958
First recorded at #429 among girls in Norway in 1958 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1958–2023
Highest recorded position: #370 among girls in Norway, in 1961 (recorded 1958–2023).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1491 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Malika appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 29 ranked years and 1,048 births registered; the earliest is Norway · Girls, from 1958.

Malika across 3 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.

Malika'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
Norway · Girls	#429 (1958)	#370 (1961)	#521 (2023)	26 of 66	136 (1958–2023)	7 (1961)
England and Wales · Girls	#1168 (1996)	#565 (2004)	#1491 (2024)	29 of 29	1,048 (1996–2024)	62 (2007)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#907 (2012)	#834 (2020)	#898 (2024)	6 of 13	18 (2012–2024)	3 (2012)

Malika 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 Malika in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	70	4 of 10	18
2000sbusiest	432	10 of 10	43
2010s	379	10 of 10	38
2020s	167	5 of 10	33

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 43 births a year.

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

Malika 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 1958 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #370 in Norway in 1961.

Malika'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	#1491	21	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#921	38	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#982	35	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#840	42	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1065	31	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1039	33	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1013	35	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1002	36	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1013	35	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1057	33	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1040	34	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#813	47	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1037	34	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#989	35	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#655	57	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#638	58	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#859	38	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#578	62	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#639	50	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#680	45	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#565	55	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#637	45	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#890	26	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#871	26	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#833	27	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1018	20	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#995	21	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1365	13	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1168	16	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#521	4	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#453	5	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#452	6	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#530	5	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#528	5	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#530	5	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#583	4	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#539	5	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#568	5	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#528	6	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#533	6	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#611	5	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#668	4	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#677	4	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#469	7	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#515	6	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#525	6	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#530	5	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#608	4	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#418	7	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#517	5	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#507	5	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#481	5	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#470	5	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#370	7	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#429	5	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#871	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#907	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1958 and 2024, ranked in 44 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #370, first reached in 1961.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 62 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

Its record falls into 9 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 11 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 54 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.

Maliha · #583, 29y
Malik · #264, 36y
Malikah · #788, 27y
Malikai · #1859, 20y

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.

Adem · #368, 44y
Aleksandr · #365, 48y
Corinne · #358, 44y
Adel · #386, 49y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Dragan · #370, 26y
Joao · #370, 54y
Mehdi · #368, 56y
Abbas · #365, 55y

Malika was ranked #370 in Norway · Girls in 1961. 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.

Malika 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 Malika without appearing here.

Malika moved ahead of

Courtney Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1065 and #1065 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #840 and #1454.
Janet Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1365 and #1045 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #995 and #1571.
Joanne Compare
In 2012 they stood at #1037 and #998 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #813 and #1360.
Katrina Compare
In 2015 they stood at #1057 and #891 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #1013 and #1525.

Moved ahead of Malika

Oda Compare
In 1988 they stood at #525 and #619 in Norway · Girls; by 1989 that had become #677 and #60.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1039 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1065 and #460.
Meabh Compare
In 2023 they stood at #921 and #1288 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1491 and #952.
Vilde Compare
In 1988 they stood at #469 and #581 in Norway · Girls; by 1989 that had become #677 and #143.

Moved the opposite way to Malika

Ada Compare
Between 1961 and 2023 in Norway · Girls, Malika went from #370 to #521 while Ada went from #331 to #6.
Alexandra Compare
Between 1961 and 2023 in Norway · Girls, Malika went from #370 to #521 while Alexandra went from #332 to #158.
Charlotte Compare
Between 1961 and 2023 in Norway · Girls, Malika went from #370 to #521 while Charlotte went from #317 to #154.
Hedvig Compare
Between 1961 and 2023 in Norway · Girls, Malika went from #370 to #521 while Hedvig went from #479 to #26.

Moved the same way as Malika

Jeanette Compare
Between 1961 and 2014 in Norway · Girls, Malika went from #370 to #530 and Jeanette from #223 to #522.
Gerd Compare
Between 1958 and 1991 in Norway · Girls, Malika went from #429 to #611 and Gerd from #46 to #402.
Janet Compare
Between 1958 and 1991 in Norway · Girls, Malika went from #429 to #611 and Janet from #239 to #652.
Hayden Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Malika went from #833 to #1491 and Hayden from #3912 to #5891.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
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 1958 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #370 in Norway in 1961. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Malika

Malika at a glance

What stands out in Malika's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Malika across 3 official records

Malika by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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What stands out in Malika's record

Malika across 3 official records

Malika by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Malika appears in

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1950s

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Malika and the names beside it

Malika moved ahead of

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