Malak

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled มะลีก in TH Thailand.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Malak is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name25K records spelled Malak54 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, Argentina, United States, Brazil

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Mãläk, Màlàk, Málák, Málàk, Mâlâk

• Hindi given name17K records spelled Malak20 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, Morocco

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  Also written Mãlãk, Màlàk, Málàk, Màlák, Mãľâķ

• Polish given name7.9K records spelled Malak58 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, United States

  Languages: Polish, Czech, Slovak

  Also written Malák, Maľák, Maľak, Mălăķ, Mąļąķ

• a separate given name4.2K records spelled Malak3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, Morocco

  Also written Malák, Malāk

• Danish given name3.0K records spelled Malak17 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Morocco

  Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

  Also written Mãläk, Maĺak, Maĺăk, Ḿḁḷḁk, Mâläk

• Bangla given name1.4K records spelled Malak9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Bangladesh, Morocco, Türkiye

  Languages: Bangla, Odia

  Also written Malaku, Mâlåk, Mäläk, Mâlâk, মালাক

• Russian given name839 records spelled Malak42 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Kazakhstan, Russia, Türkiye, North Macedonia

  Languages: Russian, Kazakh, Bulgarian

  Also written Мелек, Melek, Малак, Мёлек, Мелёк

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Malak is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• from a derivative of the common Slavic adjective maly ‘small’ (see Maly).

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• from a personal name based on Arabic malak ‘angel’.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• As a Polish name it may also be a derivative of the Old Polish personal name Malomir.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In Arabic, angel

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

• In Swedish, Malak är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’ängel’. Melek är en turkisk form.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 91 years between 1916–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Malak Hifni Nasifb. 1886EGEgyptian Feminist (1886–1918)
• Malak Jân Nematib. 1906IRKudish poet (1906-1993)
• Malak Karshb. 1915AMCanadian photographer (1915-2001)
• Malak ʻAbd al-ʻAzīzb. 1921EGEgyptian poet
• Malak El-Nasserb. 1954SYSyrian Olympic athlete
• Malak Kourab. 1993EGEgyptian actress
• Malak Mattarb. 1999PSPalestinian artist-painter
• Malak al-Kashifb. 1999EGEgyptian LGBT rights activist
• Malak Ahmed Zaherb. 2002EGEgyptian actress
• Malak Basem Sobhy Ebrahimb. 2003EGbadminton player

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 710 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Malak?

We estimate roughly 19 thousand people bear Malak (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Malak have the most bearers?

Malak is most frequently recorded in Egypt, where it is most often spelled malak.

How common is Malak compared with other names?

In Egypt, Malak is the 167th most common given name of 72,792 given names recorded there.

Is Malak a male or female name?

Malak is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Malak mean?

Recorded meaning: angel. Ghla olay ogous!