Malika

surname · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Malika is a surname, with more bearers in India than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Hindi and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Malika (Melika) är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’drottning’.

rarermore common
  • TJTajikistan1 in 593◐
  • KGKyrgyzstan1 in 949
  • UZUzbekistan1 in 979

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈184K ●

across 3 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
126 ●

129K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 7.2K ◐

India

Spellings & scripts●

MalikaLatin · Hindi●892K records
МаликаCyrillic · Russian●125K records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Малика in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan and 6 more and Маліка in UA Ukraine.

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●

recorded in Swedish

Malika (Melika) är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’drottning’. Se även → Malek. En känd namnbärare är den svenska regissören Mellika Mellouani Melani (f. 1973).

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Malika is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#231183,902△23K rec.1 in 7.2K184KMalika99
KZ Kazakhstan—114,13034K rec.—25KМалика41
RU Russia—103,94349K rec.—#151Малика124
KG Kyrgyzstan—25,0235.2K rec.——Малика20
UZ Uzbekistan—13,7302.8K rec.—listedМалика36
TJ Tajikistan—7,039124 rec.—listedМалика12
TR Türkiye—6,311875 rec.——Малика13
KE Kenya—2,217391 rec.——Malika17
UA Ukraine—1,7412.4K rec.——Маліка22
MA Morocco#3391,3993.4K rec.——Malika32
ID Indonesia—1,236418 rec.——Malika77
US United States—3863.1K rec.—5.5KMalika126

Roughly 184K people in India bear this name (about 1 in 7.2K). 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●

  • Hindi892K97%
  • French5.6K1%
  • 5.1K1%
  • Swahili4.2K1%
  • Indonesian1.8K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi892,20897%
French5,5951%
5,0971%
Swahili4,1861%
Indonesian1,7991%

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◐

Malika is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname237K records spelled Malika15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Morocco, Belgium, Spain

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Málika, Malíka, Mälïkà, Malikã, Mälîkâ

  • English surname54K records spelled Malika29 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Morocco, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Maelika, Mälika, Malïkâ, Mālîkā, Målïká

  • a separate surname13K records spelled Malika6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Morocco, United States

    Also written Mālika, Maḷika, Malikā, Malīka, ًmalika

  • Sinhala surname2.8K records spelled Malika2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Morocco, Sri Lanka, United States

    Also written Malika'

  • Danish surname2.6K records spelled Malika7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Máĺìķá, Mälîkâ

49 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●

Malika 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.

  • In Arabic, ‘queen’; Arabic feminine name.

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • In Arabic, Queen; mistress.

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • queen

    as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names

  • In German, weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In English, A female given name from Arabic, the female version of the title Malik ("King" in Arabic).

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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●

05010015020019201940196019802000155 · 1992

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Malika in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1917–2015
Yearrecords
19171
19201
19211
19223
19233
19252
19261
19271
19281
19295
19302
19312
19327
19334
19347
19357
19365
19378
193810
19393
19408
194113
194216
194318
194416
194526
194621
194719
194820
194918
195033
195131
195234
195334
195421
195543
195641
195740
195842
195962
196057
196164
196274
196366
196472
196564
196671
1967108
196897
196982
197093
197182
197291
197372
197484
197589
1976128
1977103
1978107
1979102
198090
1981126
1982115
1983128
1984113
1985118
1986114
1987134
198899
1989113
1990141
1991126
1992155
1993138
1994121
1995110
199663
199768
199831
19993
20011
20071
200813
201013
20115
20125
20132
201413
20154

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 89 years between 1917–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

500100015002000Malik ibn Anas, b. 711Malik-Shah I, b. 1055Malik Shah, b. 1096Malik-Shah II, b. 1099Malik Kafur, b. 1250Kwame Kilpatrick, b. 1970Nidal Malik Hasan, b. 1970Malik Zidi, b. 1975Malik Bendjelloul, b. 1977Jadon Sancho, b. 2000
  • Malik ibn Anasb. 711SAnot in their usual nameArab Islamic jurist, theologian and hadith traditionist (711–795)
  • Malik-Shah Ib. 1055IRnot in their usual nameDuring his rule as the Sultan of the Seljuk Empire from 1072 to 1092, Sultan Malik-Shah I played a crucial role in the history of medieval Islam.
  • Malik Shahb. 1096TRnot in their usual nameSultan of Rum
  • Malik-Shah IIb. 1099IQnot in their usual nameThe temporary ruler of the Seljuk Empire (1105)
  • Malik Kafurb. 1250INnot in their usual nameaka Taj al-Din Izz al-Dawla, a prominent eunuch slave-general of the Delhi Sultanate
  • Kwame Kilpatrickb. 1970USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician and football player
  • Nidal Malik Hasanb. 1970USnot in their usual nameAmerican Army officer and mass murderer (born 1970)
  • Malik Zidib. 1975FRnot in their usual nameFrench actor
  • Malik Bendjelloulb. 1977SEnot in their usual nameSwedish film and documentary director (1977-2014)
  • Jadon Sanchob. 2000GBnot in their usual nameEnglish association football player (born 2000)

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 97 sources across 57 countries.

Official registers attesting Malika
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—184K#116
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202424K#381
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—7.3K#693
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—6.7K#377
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20205.5K#3,615
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—902#1,757
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—656#2,706
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—543#2,607
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—509#577
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—407#722
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026407#722
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020364—

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name 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 · 771 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Malika?
We estimate roughly 184 thousand people bear Malika (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
In which country does Malika have the most bearers?
We estimate about 184 thousand people bear Malika in India, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled malika.
How common is Malika compared with other names?
In India, Malika is the 231st most common surname of 2,352,292 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Malika mean?
Recorded meaning: Malika (Melika) är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’drottning’.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Malika” — the 231st most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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