Malik

What Malik means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Malik yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1996, with 4,026 babies; 724 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Malik?

US: Falling: down from #375 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #423 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1996, when 4,026 boys got the name (#97 that year). First in the US records in 1949.

How common

• About 1 in 2,359 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,700 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 3,928 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MD (1.09 per 1,000 boys), MI (1.02 per 1,000 boys), MN (0.82 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Malik is #437 in the US and #282 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Malik were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

Wiktionary only lists the US pronunciation so far.

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Malek121 US · 26 E&W
• Maleek34 US · 19 E&W
• Maalik11 US · 11 E&W
• Malick22 US
• Malak17 US
• Malyk8 US
• Maliq6 US
• Melik6 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Malik

Boys

• Omar#260Editor’s note Down from #217 in 2015 to #260 in 2025 in the US
• Ahmad#669“praiseworthy”^*
• Khalil#384“friend”^*
• Ryan#99Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1985, with 29,905 babies; 3,532 in 2025
• Mohammed#595Variant of Muhammad, meaning “praised, commendable, laudable”^*
• Khalid#940“immortal; glorious; eternal”^*

For a sister

• Yasmin#955Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2006, with 1,018 babies; 269 in 2025
• Aliyah#263“ascent”^*
• Aaliyah#101Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1976, with 18 babies
• Nadia#565“Nadia; tender”^*
• Sarah#90“masters, princes”^*
• Aleah#965Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #444 in 2015, #965 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Arabic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Malik’s. Rank is US 2025.