Malik: Name Meaning, Origin, Popularity, & Inspiration

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Malik

Muslim and Hindu (mainly Panjab): status name from a title meaning "lord", "ruler", "chief", from Arabic malik "king."

+ 3% this year Neutral Uncommon Updated: August 7, 2024 Updated: August 7, 2024 Table of contents

Girl name origins & meanings

• Arabic : Queen; princess
• Slavic : Industrious
• Sanskrit : Garland

Girl name variations

Malika Malikah

Boy name origins & meanings

• Arabic : Master

Boy name variations

Malek

How Popular Is The Name Malik

Family name origins & meanings

• Muslim and Hindu (mainly Panjab) : status name from a title meaning ‘lord’, ‘ruler’, ‘chief’, from Arabic malik ‘king’. In the subcontinent this is often found as a title for the headman of a village. In Islam Al-Malik ‘the King’ is one of the attributes of Allah, regarded as ‘the king of mankind’ (Qur’an 114:2), and this word is used in combination in names such as ‛Abd-ul Malik ‘servant of the King’. This was the name of an Umayyad khalif (685–705).
• Czech, Slovak (Malík), and Slovenian : nickname for a small person, from a pet form of a vocabulary word meaning ‘small’ (Polish mały, Czech malý ‘small’, Slovenian mali). Compare Maly.

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