Malika

Where Malika comes from

Borrowed from Arabic مَلِكَة (malika, “queen”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Malika
  • Arabic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1966
    First appearance
    #5,809 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1996
    Peak, #1,020
    183 babies named Malika — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2002
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,046.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Arabic, the female version of the title Malik ("King" in Arabic).
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.