Melek
given name · Latin script
Meaning: angel
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Melek is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 54th most common given name.
- TRTürkiye1 in 415(measured from records)
- SYSyria≈1 in 944
- CYCyprus≈1 in 1.2K
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 Melek itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 117 (measured from records)
- 1 in 415 (inferred from the name graph)
197,476 people, 2025
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye
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
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Melek 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #54 | 197,476 | 1 in 415 | 197K | Melek | 108 |
| SY Syria | #154 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 944 | — | Melek | 7 |
| ES Spain | — | 8,478as Malak | 1 in 5.9K | 8.5K | — | 14 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #445 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 4 | Melek | 13 |
| US United States | — | 4,277as Malak | 1 in 78K | 3.8K | Melek | 117 |
| TN Tunisia | #228 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Melek | 31 |
| CY Cyprus | #55 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Melek | 15 |
197,476 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used given names, 2025. 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: TÜİK NIP — most used given names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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)
Melek 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 Turkish, 1.Tanrı ile insan arasında aracılık yaptığına ve nurdan olduğuna inanılan manevi varlık.2. Terbiyeli, uysal kimse.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
king
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Swedish, Se Malak.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, männl. Vom., türkische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Jewish: from a vocabulary element meaning ‘king’ in Hebrew. It originated in part as a nickname, in part as a short form of various compound names containing this element, for example Elimelek ‘God is king’.
as a word
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)
- Melek Özdilb. 1916TRTurkish rower
- Melek Delilbaşıb. 1947TRTurkish professor of medieval history (1947–2022)
- Melek Baykalb. 1954TRTurkish actor (born 1954)
- Melek Gençoğlub. 1959TRTurkish screenwriter (born 1959)
- Melek Ametb. 1960ROCrimean Tatar, fashion model
- Mine Tugayb. 1978TRnot in their usual nameTurkish actor (born 1978)
- Melek Mossob. 1988TRTurkish musician (born 1988)
- Melek Hub. 1989TRTurkish table tennis player (born 1989)
- Melek Bilgeb. 1989TRTurkish basketball player (born 1989)
- Melek SevenTRTurkish screenwriter
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 78 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used given names | 2025 | 197K | #14 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2021 | 2.2K | #29 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 421 | #20,132 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 124 | #13,295 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 95 | #20,132 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 76 | #8,764 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 35 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 5 | — |
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 4 | — |
Reference works 7
- 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
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- 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
- What does the name Melek mean, and where does it come from?
- angel Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Melek a male or female name?
- Melek 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 Melek?
- In the etymology graph, Malak and Malaika are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Melek have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 197 thousand people named Melek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled melek.
- Where is Melek most common?
- Melek is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 415 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Melek?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 197,476 people named Melek in 2025, about 1 in 415 residents.
- How common is Melek compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Melek is the 54th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/melekThe 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, “Melek” — the 54th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.