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Girl name origins & meanings
- Arabic : Queen; princess
- Slavic : Industrious
- Sanskrit : Garland
Boy name origins & meanings
- Arabic : Master
Boy name variations
How Popular Is The Name Malik
Family name origins & meanings
- Muslim and Hindu (mainly Panjab) : status name from a title meaning ‘lord’, ‘ruler’, ‘chief’, from Arabic malik ‘king’. In the subcontinent this is often found as a title for the headman of a village. In Islam Al-Malik ‘the King’ is one of the attributes of Allah, regarded as ‘the king of mankind’ (Qur’an 114:2), and this word is used in combination in names such as ‛Abd-ul Malik ‘servant of the King’. This was the name of an Umayyad khalif (685–705).
- Czech, Slovak (Malík), and Slovenian : nickname for a small person, from a pet form of a vocabulary word meaning ‘small’ (Polish mały, Czech malý ‘small’, Slovenian mali). Compare Maly.