Malick
surname · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Malick is a surname, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 88th most common surname. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: relationship name from the Middle English female personal name Malin, a diminutive form of Mall or Mald (Maud). See Mall and compare Mallinson , Malt , Maude (2).
- PKPakistan1 in 410◐
- AEUnited Arab Emirates1 in 614
- SASaudi Arabia1 in 725
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈702K ●
- #492 ●
- 4 ●
- Sources
- 309 ●
- 1 in 2.0K ◐
across 10 countries
of 21M surnames
recorded for this name
1.2M records
Official registry-verified
India
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Malik in IN India, PK Pakistan, US United States and 15 more and Maalik in BE Belgium.
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●
relationship name from the Middle English female personal name Malin, a diminutive form of Mall or Mald (Maud). See Mall and compare Mallinson , Malt , Maude (2). Pronunciation of final -in often weakened to /ə/, which could alternatively be spelled -en or -on. The first vowel in Malin may be short (as in pal), hence the variant Mallin , or long (as in pale), giving rise to the variants Maylin and Mealing. Vacillation between -in and -ing is not uncommon and the variant Ma(y)l(l)an sometimes attracted an excrescent -d, leading to possible confusion with the locative names Malling and Mayland .
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nordic Names
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #88 | 675,360 | 1.1M rec. | 1 in 2K | 675K | Malik | 250 |
| PK Pakistan | #47 | 122,636 | 37K rec. | — | listed | Malik | 141 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 15,033 | 6.8K rec. | — | — | Malik | 140 |
| US United States | — | 14,925 | 59K rec. | 1 in 22K | 37K | Malik | 309 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #43 | 12,823 | 6.4K rec. | — | — | Malik | 104 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #21 | 5,752 | 9.5K rec. | — | — | Malik | 124 |
| MY Malaysia | #781 | 3,914 | 3.4K rec. | — | — | Malik | 45 |
| PL Poland | — | 3,655 | — | 1 in 10K | 3.7K | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | 2,726 | — | 1 in 3.9K | 2.7K | — | — |
| EG Egypt | — | 2,490 | 2.4K rec. | — | — | Malik | 55 |
| CA Canada | — | 2,475 | 2.7K rec. | — | 34 | Malik | 115 |
| NO Norway | — | 2,394△ | 266 rec. | 1 in 2.3K | 2.4K | — | 34 |
Roughly 675K people in India bear this name (about 1 in 2K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi29K39%
- English18K24%
- 17K22%
- French3.2K4%
- Bangla1.7K2%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 28,917 | 39% |
| English | 18,257 | 24% |
| 16,662 | 22% | |
| French | 3,158 | 4% |
| Bangla | 1,688 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 7 |
| 1992 | 6 |
| 1993 | 8 |
| 1994 | 7 |
| 1995 | 7 |
| 1996 | 14 |
| 1997 | 32 |
| 1998 | 21 |
| 1999 | 17 |
| 2000 | 15 |
| 2001 | 19 |
| 2002 | 17 |
| 2003 | 18 |
| 2004 | 23 |
| 2005 | 28 |
| 2006 | 22 |
| 2007 | 23 |
| 2008 | 21 |
| 2009 | 20 |
| 2010 | 21 |
| 2011 | 20 |
| 2012 | 21 |
| 2013 | 26 |
| 2014 | 22 |
| 2015 | 16 |
| 2016 | 21 |
| 2017 | 16 |
| 2018 | 8 |
| 2019 | 23 |
| 2020 | 18 |
| 2021 | 19 |
| 2022 | 16 |
| 2023 | 14 |
| 2024 | 18 |
| 2025 | 22 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 35 years between 1991–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Georges Malickb. 1893FRFrench official (1893–1954)
- Terrence Malickb. 1943USAmerican film director and screenwriter (born 1943)
- Wendie Malickb. 1950USAmerican film, television and voice actress
- Amna Malickb. 1997PKPakistani actress
- Mercy MalickUSAmerican actress
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●
Attested in 67 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2K | #14,902 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.9K | #775 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.6K | #16,609 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,828 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 856 | #3,169 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 757 | #15,159 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 683 | #1,678 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 120 | #7,542 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 104 | #3,605 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 80 | #32,927 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 67 | — |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 52 | #28 |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 239 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Malick?
- We estimate roughly 702 thousand people bear Malick (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Malick have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 675 thousand people bear Malick in India, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled malik.
- How common is Malick compared with other names?
- In India, Malick is the 88th most common surname of 2,352,292 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Malick mean?
- Recorded meaning: relationship name from the Middle English female personal name Malin, a diminutive form of Mall or Mald (Maud). See Mall and compare Mallinson , Malt , Maude (2).
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Malick” — the 88th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.