Abdul-Malik
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries
Abdul-Malik is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Arabic عَبْدُ المَلِك (ʕabdu l-malik).
- SESweden1 in 170K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 175K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 220K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 122 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 119K (inferred from the name graph)
≈990 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Abdulmalik in NG Nigeria, US United States, TZ Tanzania.
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)Borrowed from Arabic عَبْدُ المَلِك (ʕabdu l-malik).
Cited for this meaning 2
- Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Abdul-Malik 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 217K | — | Abdulmalik | 70 |
| US United States | 628 | 1 in 530K | 628 | Abdulmalik | 122 |
| GH Ghana | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 119K | — | Abdul-Malik | 17 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 522K | — | Abdulmalik | 13 |
| SE Sweden | 60 | 1 in 170K | 60 | — | 2 |
| FI Finland | 13 | 1 in 429K | 40 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 2 | 1 in 175K | 2 | — | — |
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); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)- Abd al-Malik ibn Marwanb. 646SAnot in their usual nameUmayyad caliph from 685 to 705
- Ibn Hishamb. 701IQnot in their usual nameMuslim scholar and historian (died 833)
- Al-ʾAṣmaʿiyyb. 740IQnot in their usual nameBasra school Arab scholar and grammarian (c.740–828/833)
- Tha'ālibīb. 961IRnot in their usual namePersian writer and poet (961–1038)
- Al-Juwaynib. 1028IRnot in their usual nameMuslim scholar and theologian (1028–1085)
- Ibn Zuhrb. 1091ESnot in their usual nameArab physician, surgeon and poet (1094–1162)
- Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I Saadib. 1541MAnot in their usual nameMoroccan Saadi Dynasty ruler from 1576 to 1578
- Abd al-Malik al-Houthib. 1979YEnot in their usual nameLeader of the Ansar Allah since 2004
- Abdolmalek Rigib. 1979IRnot in their usual nameIranian terrorist
- Abdulmalek Al-Khaibrib. 1986SAnot in their usual nameSaudi Arabian footballer
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)Evidence
(measured from records)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
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
- What does the name Abdul-Malik mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Arabic عَبْدُ المَلِك (ʕabdu l-malik). Recorded by Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Abdul-Malik have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 986 people named Abdul-Malik in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled abdulmalik.
- How common is the name Abdul-Malik?
- In the United States, the national register counted 628 people named Abdul-Malik in 2020, about 1 in 530 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/abdul-malikThe 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, “Abdul-Malik”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.