Salik

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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.

rarermore common
  • 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)

≈6,800 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
138 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)

Greenland, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SalikLatin(measured from records)
শালিকBengali(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

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.

Where Salik is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BD Bangladesh≈6,800 est.≈1 in 24KlistedSalik13
PK Pakistan≈4,700 est.≈1 in 50KlistedSalik47
PH Philippines≈1,100 est.≈1 in 101K—Salik30
SA Saudi Arabia≈290 est.≈1 in 117K—Salik17
AE United Arab Emirates≈200 est.≈1 in 50K—Salik27
US United States1791 in 1.9M411Salik138
QA Qatar≈41 est.≈1 in 60K—Salik10
GL Greenland≈3 est.≈1 in 20K117—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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Salik is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Sālik

  • Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, India, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Sälik, Sãlik, Sālik

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, United States, Belgium

    Also written Sälik

  • Estonian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Estonia

    Also written Sälik

  • Danish given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Greenland, Sweden

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

    Also written Sälik, Sålîk

44 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

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)

1920194019601980Pierre Salik, b. 1930Rachel Salik, b. 1937Magdalena Salik, b. 1978

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 37 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Salik
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020411#54,177
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010349#58,182
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000321#58,999
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

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.
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.

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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.

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