Encik
given name · Latin script
Meaning: term of address conferred on an adult male of moderate or unknown position, usually when the name is unknown; mister
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Encik is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country, where it is the 21st most common given name.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 15K(inferred from the name graph)
- BNBrunei≈1 in 7.9K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 251K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 54 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Brunei, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
term of address conferred on an adult male of moderate or unknown position, usually when the name is unknown; mister
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Encik 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #21 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 15K | Encik | 47 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 251K | Encik | 54 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 927K | Encik | 2 |
| BN Brunei | #157 | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | Encik | 1 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 5.1M | Encik | 3 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 324K | Encik | 5 |
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.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Encik 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 Indonesian, term of address conferred on a respectable or unknown adult, usually when the name is unknown
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Javanese, title for a foreign (Moslem) trader, esp. in Sulawesi, Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula (Pigeaud)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In English, Informal term of address for a male warrant officer in the Singapore Armed Forces.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Javanese, a full-blooded Chinese (pejorative); Chinese girl, woman (addr.)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Javanese, a full-blooded Chinese -- pejorative (Horne)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Encik mean, and where does it come from?
- term of address conferred on an adult male of moderate or unknown position, usually when the name is unknown; mister Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Encik a male or female name?
- Encik is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Encik have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Encik in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled encik.
- How common is the name Encik?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2,200 people in Malaysia have Encik as their first given name, about 1 in 15 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Encik compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Encik is the 21st most common given name of 388,685 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Encik?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/encikThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Encik” — the 21st most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.