Malikah is a first name for girls, occasionally also given to boys.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Malikah in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Malikah in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Malikah by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Malikah ranks at #9,841. That means there are 9,840 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Malikah.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Malikah. Girls named Malikah have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 2,010 Malikah ranked higher than ever before in 1977. By comparison, there have been 90 years in which the first name Malikah has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2019. In general, parents name their daughters Malikah only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Malikah was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Malikah continues to be a precious jewel: 9 newborns were named Malikah that year, ranking #9,013 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Malikah, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Malikah in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 199 women and girls named Malikah, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 199 women and girls named Malikah live in no more than 7 different states, including for example California, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey and New York. In all other 42 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Malikah. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Malikah lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Malikah and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Malikah relative to its female population is New Jersey. And even there, only one in 57,653 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Malikah.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With seven letters, the name Malikah has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Malikah and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Malikah, you can simply say:
Mouse
Apple
Lion
Igloo
Koala
Apple
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Malikah
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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A
L
I
K
A
H
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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A
L
I
K
A
H
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Malikah sounds like this:
