Malak
given name · Latin script
Meaning: angel. Ghla olay ogous!
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈmæɫək/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Malak is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country. In Morocco it is the 96th most common given name.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 675(inferred from the name graph)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 1.2K
- KWKuwait≈1 in 1.7K
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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 217 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 675 (inferred from the name graph)
≈85,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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. Ghla olay ogous! Gabdy 2S! aul, Lb asoS ale YI Jaa o! Ia, laa L. as "When they saw him they exalted him and [in their amazement] cut their hands: they said, ‘Allah preserve us! This is not a human being. This is no other than a noble angel." (surat Yusuf 12:31). See Jamai (m); Yusuf (m); Zulaykha (f.). Malak Hifni Nasif (1886-1918): Egyptian writer who campaigned for women’s rights
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Malak 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #108 | ≈85,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Malak | 119 |
| MA Morocco | #96 | ≈53,000 est. | ≈1 in 675 | — | Malak | 80 |
| DZ Algeria | #103 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Malak | 35 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #310 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Malak | 107 |
| SY Syria | #201 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Malak | 23 |
| ES Spain | — | 8,478 | 1 in 5.9K | 8.5K | Malak | 52 |
| KW Kuwait | #145 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Malak | 50 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Malak 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.
from a derivative of the common Slavic adjective maly ‘small’ (see Maly).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from a personal name based on Arabic malak ‘angel’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
As a Polish name it may also be a derivative of the Old Polish personal name Malomir.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Arabic, angel
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Swedish, Malak är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’ängel’. Melek är en turkisk form.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Malak Hifni Nasifb. 1886EGEgyptian Feminist (1886–1918)
- Malak Jân Nematib. 1906IRKudish poet (1906-1993)
- Malak Karshb. 1915AMCanadian photographer (1915-2001)
- Malak ʻAbd al-ʻAzīzb. 1921EGEgyptian poet
- Malak El-Nasserb. 1954SYSyrian Olympic athlete
- Malak Kourab. 1993EGEgyptian actress
- Malak Mattarb. 1999PSPalestinian artist-painter
- Malak al-Kashifb. 1999EGEgyptian LGBT rights activist
- Malak Ahmed Zaherb. 2002EGEgyptian actress
- Malak Basem Sobhy Ebrahimb. 2003EGbadminton player
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 85 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8.5K | #615 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 7K | #363 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 25 | #22,629 |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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
- Where does the name Malak come from?
- angel. Ghla olay ogous! Gabdy 2S! aul, Lb asoS ale YI Jaa o! Ia, laa L. Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- In which country does Malak have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 85 thousand people named Malak in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled malak.
- What does the name Malak mean?
- Recorded meaning: angel. Ghla olay ogous!
- How do you pronounce Malak?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmæɫək/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Malak a male or female name?
- Malak 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 are other forms of the name Malak?
- In the etymology graph, Melek is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Malak?
- In Spain, the national register counted 8,478 people named Malak, about 1 in 5.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Malak compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Malak is the 108th most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/malakThe 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, “Malak” — the 108th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.