Maalik
surname · Latin script
Meaning: king, owner; one of the names/titles of God (African Muslim Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries
Maalik is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 46th most common surname. Maalik is also written মালিক in Bengali, მალიკ in Georgian and ਮਲਿਕ in Gurmukhi.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 200as Malik(inferred from the name graph)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 750as Malik
- BHBahrain≈1 in 770as Malik
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Maalik itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- #550 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 330 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 195 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300,000 named Malik, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Pakistan, est., as Malik
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Maalik in other scripts: Latin, Bengali, Georgian and 1 more
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Malik in IN India, PK Pakistan, SA Saudi Arabia and 4 more.
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)king, owner; one of the names/titles of God
Cited for this meaning 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Maalik is found
(measured from records)Maalik 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #46 | ≈1,300,000 est. | ≈1 in 195 | listed | Malik | 162 |
| IN India | #105 | 675,360as Malik | 1 in 2K | 675K | Malik | 274 |
| BD Bangladesh | #224 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Malik | 69 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #35 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Malik | 108 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | listed | Malik | 37 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #18 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 751 | — | Malik | 135 |
| BH Bahrain | #32 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 768 | — | Malik | 44 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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)Maalik 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 Arabic, ruler, owner; from m-l-k ‘to own’
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Arabic, king; owner
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Arabic, ruler
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
Experience.
as a nameThe African book of names
king
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
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)- Maalik Bomarb. 1990USAmerican gridiron football player
- Maalik Waynsb. 1991USAmerican basketball player
- Maalik Reynoldsb. 1992USAmerican high jumper
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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Maalik mean, and where does it come from?
- king, owner; one of the names/titles of God Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- What are other forms of the name Maalik?
- In the etymology graph, Malik is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Maalik?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 million people named Malik in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold. After it come India, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Maalik?
- In India, the national register counted 675,360 people named Malik, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Maalik compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Maalik is the 46th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Maalik?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maalikThe 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, “Maalik” — the 46th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.