Malik
The name means "king". In Poland it stays rare: only about 200 men carry it, and just a handful of boys get it each year, never a girl.
Malik Pronunciation
Malik is pronounced MAH-leek (/ˈmalik/).
What Malik means
Where Malik comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Malik reaches Polish records along two roads. The given origin is Slavic, from the ground where short forms and pet names grew from small roots, and the sound sits easily beside familiar Polish words. Its cultural pull comes from elsewhere.
In Arabic, malik (ملك) means king, and that is the sense most people hear now. The Polish gloss holds the same word: król. A name with Slavic bones came to wear an Arabic meaning, and both belong to it.
No diminutives or variants are recorded here. Malik stands alone, a single four-letter form.
Read a class register in a Polish school today and Malik appears among names of far older local standing. The king it names is a title no child holds. It is a meaning, król, attached to the name and carried plainly.
How many people are named Malik
1 in 98370 men in Poland is named Malik. 217 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2120 among male names.
Malik's popularity over time
5 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #940 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2017.
Where parents choose Malik
Malik is most popular in Masovian, 307% above the national average (8 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Łódź (+184%) and Silesian (+58%).
Malik as a middle name
Malik is a first name for 217 men in Poland and a middle name for another 70, a 76/24 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 863rd, between Luciano (70) and Narayan (70).
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#861 Lambert70
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#862 Luciano70
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#863 Malik70
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#864 Narayan70
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