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Malik
Say it: MAH-lik
Meaning
From Arabic mālik 'owner, king'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1990s
In the United States
- 45,902 babies given this name since 1949
- At its height in 1996, about 1 in 471 boys
- 821 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Malick
| Arabic | Mālik |
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Famous bearers
- Malik el-Shabazz, the name Malcolm X took in 1964
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.