Salik
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/səlɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Salik is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Western Greenlandic, possibly from saliisoq (“the cleanser”). Name of a boy in 1980s children's books and radio programs.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 101K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.9M
- GLGreenland≈1 in 20K
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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 138 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,800 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Greenland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Western Greenlandic, possibly from saliisoq (“the cleanser”). Name of a boy in 1980s children's books and radio programs.
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Salik 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 24K | listed | Salik | 13 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 50K | listed | Salik | 47 |
| PH Philippines | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 101K | — | Salik | 30 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 117K | — | Salik | 17 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Salik | 27 |
| US United States | 179 | 1 in 1.9M | 411 | Salik | 138 |
| QA Qatar | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Salik | 10 |
| GL Greenland | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 117 | — | 3 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5). 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)
Salik is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Albanian, small leather sack, leather bag
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, element; factor; basic part
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tgc, to flow
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Arabic, traveller, wayfarer
as a nameA Dictionary of 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)
- Pierre Salikb. 1930BEbusinessperson, Entrepreneur
- Rachel Salikb. 1937FRFrench actress (1937–2007)
- Magdalena Salikb. 1978PLPolish writer
- Julius SalikPKPakistani activist
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 37 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 411 | #54,177 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 349 | #58,182 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 321 | #58,999 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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)
- 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 Salik mean, and where does it come from?
- Western Greenlandic, possibly from saliisoq (“the cleanser”). Name of a boy in 1980s children's books and radio programs. Recorded by Wiktionary and A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Salik?
- A machine transcription gives /səlɪk/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Salik a male or female name?
- Salik is a male 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.
- In which country does Salik have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.8 thousand people named Salik in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salik.
- How common is the name Salik?
- In the United States, the national register counted 179 people named Salik in 2020, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Salik?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/salikThe 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, “Salik”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.