Malĕk
surname · Latin script
Malĕk is a surname 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.
- CZCzechia1 in 3.1K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 6.8K
- HRCroatia1 in 14K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 213 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)
4,780 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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.
Cited for this meaning 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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Malĕk is found
(measured from records)Malĕk 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 4,780 | 1 in 70K | 4.9K | Malek | 213 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 3,453 | 1 in 3.1K | 3.5K | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 2,026 | 1 in 19K | 1K | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 520 | 1 in 407K | 520 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 309 | 1 in 6.8K | 309 | — | 2 |
| HR Croatia | — | 304 | 1 in 14K | 304 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 220 | 1 in 25K | 364 | — | 13 |
| DZ Algeria | #61 | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 356K | — | Malek | 54 |
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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Malĕk 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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Malĕk?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.8 thousand people named Malĕk, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled malek. After it come Czechia, Poland, Brazil and Slovenia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Malĕk most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Malĕk 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 Malĕk?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,780 people named Malĕk in 2010, about 1 in 70 thousand residents.
- How common is Malĕk compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Malĕk is the 61st most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mal%C4%95kThe 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, “Malĕk” — the 61st most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.