Malaïka
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/malajka/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Malaïka is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Angel, beautiful one.
- GYGuyana1 in 26K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 38K
- SESweden1 in 45K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 117 (measured from records)
- 1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
2,190 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Malaika in US United States, ES Spain, MZ Mozambique.
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)
Angel, beautiful one
Sources 2
- A Handbook of African Names
- Nordic Names
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Malaïka 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 | — | 2,190 | 1 in 152K | 2.2K | Malaika | 56 |
| SE Sweden | — | 228 | 1 in 45K | 228 | — | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 183 | 1 in 94K | 183 | — | 4 |
| DK Denmark | — | 154 | 1 in 38K | 154 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 141 | 1 in 355K | 141 | Malaika | 18 |
| FI Finland | — | 50 | 1 in 111K | 65 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 29 | 1 in 26K | 29 | — | — |
| MZ Mozambique | #690 | — | — | — | Malaika | 7 |
2,190 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Malaika Mihambob. 1994DEGerman athletics competitor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 5 | #34,383 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Malaïka a male or female name?
- Malaïka is a female 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.
- What does the name Malaïka mean, and where does it come from?
- Angel, beautiful one Recorded by A Handbook of African Names and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Malaïka?
- A machine transcription gives /malajka/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Malaïka have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.2 thousand people named Malaïka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled malaika.
- Where is Malaïka most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Malaïka is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 26 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Malaïka?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,190 people named Malaïka in 2020, about 1 in 152 thousand residents.
- How common is Malaïka compared with other names?
- In Mozambique, Malaïka is the 690th most common given name of 1,034 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Malaïka?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mala%C3%AFkaThe 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, “Malaïka” — the 690th most common given name in Mozambique. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.