Malęk

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Malęk is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Algeria it is the 61st most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Czech Málek, Polish Małek, Slovene Malek, or a variant of the Muslim name Malik.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 70K(measured from records)
  • DZAlgeria≈1 in 812K
  • CZCzechia1 in 3.1K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

4,780 people, 2010

Sources
213 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Malek in US United States, DZ Algeria.

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

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From Czech Málek, Polish Małek, Slovene Malek, or a variant of the Muslim name Malik.

Sources 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wiktionary
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Malęk counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Malęk is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—4,7801 in 70K4.9KMalek213
CZ Czechia—3,4531 in 3.1K3.5K——
PL Poland—2,0261 in 19K1K——
BR Brazil—5201 in 407K520——
SI Slovenia—3091 in 6.8K309—2
HR Croatia—3041 in 14K304——
NO Norway—2201 in 25K364—13
DZ Algeria#61≈53 est.≈1 in 812K—Malek54

4,780 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Malęk under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Malęk mean, and where does it come from?
From Czech Málek, Polish Małek, Slovene Malek, or a variant of the Muslim name Malik. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 3 other sources.
Is Malęk a male or female name?
Malęk is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Malęk have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 4.8 thousand people named Malęk, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled malek.
Where is Malęk most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Malęk is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 3.1 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Malęk?
In the United States, the national register counted 4,780 people named Malęk in 2010, about 1 in 70 thousand residents.
How common is Malęk compared with other names?
In Algeria, Malęk is the 61st most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Malęk” — the 61st most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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