Malaika
given name · Latin script
Meaning: angels
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məlaɪkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Malaika is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 152K(measured from records)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 4.9K
- GYGuyana1 in 26K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 257 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈48,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
angels
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Malaika 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 | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Malaika | 44 |
| US United States | 2,190 | 1 in 152K | 2.2K | Malaika | 257 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Malaika | 13 |
| DE Germany | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 205K | 2 | Malaika | 74 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 844K | listed | Malaika | 21 |
| SE Sweden | 228 | 1 in 45K | 228 | — | 4 |
| DK Denmark | 154 | 1 in 38K | 154 | — | 2 |
| GY Guyana | 29 | 1 in 26K | 29 | Malaika | 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; the de-leipzig-vornamen register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); the african-book-names-hodari-2003 register; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Malaika 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 English, Arabic; an angel
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In Swahili, Swahili: "angel"
as a nameAfrican Names
Angel.
as a nameThe African book of names
In German, ) Maleika: weibl. Vom. ara bischer Herkunft (arab. malä'ika, Mehrzahl von »Engel«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Angel, beautiful one
as a nameA Handbook of African 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)
- Malaika Favoriteb. 1949USAfrican-American artist
- Malaika Shenoyb. 1950INIndian actress
- Malaika Arorab. 1975INIndian actress
- Malaika wa azaniab. 1991ZASouth African political commentator
- Malaika Mihambob. 1994DEGerman athletics competitor
- Malaika Firthb. 1994GBmodel
- Malaika Goelb. 1997INIndian shooter
- Malaika Rapolub. 2003USAmerican tennis player
- Annabelle Malaika Süessb. 2006NZactress
- Malaika Wakoli-Abigabaactress
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 65 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.2K | #7,072 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 228 | #4,761 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 154 | #1,185 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 78 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 76 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 29 | #565 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 24 | #7,072 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2024 | 2 | #2 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2020 | 1 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | The African Book of Names (Hodari, 2003) | — | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | A Handbook of African Names (Asante, 1976) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Malaika mean, and where does it come from?
- angels Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- In which country does Malaika have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 48 thousand people named Malaika in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled malaika.
- How do you pronounce Malaika?
- A machine transcription gives /məlaɪkə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Malaika a male or female name?
- Malaika 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 Malaika?
- In the etymology graph, Melek is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Malaika?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,190 people named Malaika in 2020, about 1 in 152 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Malaika?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/malaikaThe 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, “Malaika”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.