Maleek
Masculine · “king”
Maleek is a spelling of Malik, the Arabic word for a king. It is a plain and very old word, and one of the divine names in Islam is built on it.
How old is the name Maleek?
Maleek first appears in US birth records in 1974 — 51 years ago. The typical Maleek alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 2,100 people named Maleek are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Maleek most popular?
Maleek peaked in 1997, reaching #1274 nationally. Today it ranks #3379, 2,105 places below that high. See the whole 1997 chart.
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Where it comes from
From malik to Maleek
The story of Maleek
The root behind malik runs through the whole Semitic family — Hebrew melech, Aramaic malka, Arabic malik — and it has meant a king for four thousand years. As a personal name it has been in use since the earliest Islamic period, and it traveled with Arabic into Persian, Urdu, Turkish and the Malay world. In American records Maleek and Malik both appear, in Arab, South Asian and African-American Muslim families alike.
Meaning
king, sovereign
From Arabic malik, a king; the related malak with a different vowel means an angel, and al-Malik, the Sovereign, is among the names of God. Hebrew melech is the same word in a related language.
How the name formed
- malik
- Maleek
Related forms: Malik · Malik · Melech · Malik
Pronouncing Maleek
mah-LEEK
Two syllables with the stress on the long second. English speakers often say MAL-ik.
Nicknames for Maleek
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1974
- Most boys named
- 199790 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1274reached in 1997
- Change vs 2024
- −10.5%34 in 2025, from 38
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Maleek in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Malik in Arabic — spelling variant
- Malik in Urdu — same name
- Melech in Hebrew — related form
- Malik in Malay — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, Texas, New York.
Maleeks among us
people named Maleek are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 50,238 born in 2025 was named Maleek
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Maleek
- #3379
- Maleek on the 2025 chart
- #773
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Maleek went to 34 boys in 2025, but Malek is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 155, which makes it the 773rd most-given boys’ name of the year — 2,606 places above the chart.
- Malek121
- Maleek34
About 1 boy in 11,020 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 50,238 for Maleek itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Konrad test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Maleek's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Konrad climbed just as high around 1955, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Konrad's path sketches the road Maleek is walking now.
Maleek sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Maleek is headed
Maleek should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Maleek beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Maleek in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning of unusual plainness and force.
- Recognized across the Arab world, South Asia, Turkey and the Malay world.
- Two syllables and an easy rhythm for English speakers.
- Malik is the standard transliteration and will be written for him.
- A title as a name is a large claim, though Arabic usage treats it as ordinary.
- The Leek clip is an English vegetable and children will find it.
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Frequently asked
- How many Maleeks are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,100 people named Maleek are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Maleek?
- Maleek is one of 2 recorded spellings. Malek is the more common one — 121 births in 2025 against 34 for Maleek.
- How popular is the name Maleek in 2025?
- Maleek ranks #3379 among US boy names in 2025, with 34 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Maleek?
- About 1 in every 50,238 US boys born in 2025 was named Maleek — 34 in all.
- Will my child share the name Maleek with classmates?
- Maleek will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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