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Abdulmalik

Gender
Boy
Origin
Arabic
UK rank, 2025
#2,342 for boys
US rank, 2025
#6,140 for boys

Abdulmalik is a boys' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 2,342nd for boys in the UK (10 babies) and 6,140th for boys in the US (14 babies).

What does Abdulmalik mean?

Arabic

A male given name from Arabic.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Abdulmalik a girl's or a boy's name?

Abdulmalik is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 boys in the UK and 14 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Abdulmalik in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#2,342among boys
Babies in 2025
10about 1 in 30,000 boys
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 26% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 10 boys in the UK were named Abdulmalik, making it the 2,342nd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,359th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 20 boys.

Half of all the boys named Abdulmalik in the UK since 1996 were born between 2009 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 13 boys in the UK were given Abdulmalik or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,668, up from #2,342 for this spelling alone.

Among boys in 2025, it was 2,265th in England and Wales.

1997Busiest: 20 in 20142025
Abdulmalik in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
202510#2,342
20248#2,750
20235#3,712
20226#3,219
202112#1,969
20209#2,359
201911#2,102
201811#2,088
20174#4,161
201614#1,804
201510#2,260
201420#1,357
201315#1,636
20127#2,849
20119#2,311
201012#1,887
200914#1,674
20086#2,906
200713#1,667
20064#3,522
20059#1,957
20040–
20036#2,283
20025#2,358
20014#2,714
20001#4,018
19995#2,184
19980–
19975#2,109

How popular is Abdulmalik in the US?

Rank in 2025
#6,140among boys
Babies in 2025
14about 1 in 120,000 boys
Five-year trend
Steadydown 17% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 14 boys in the US were named Abdulmalik, making it the 6,140th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,851st. Its busiest year was 2015, with 36 boys. It first appears in the records in 1988.

Half of all the boys named Abdulmalik in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

1988Busiest: 36 in 20152025
Abdulmalik in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202514#6,140
202420#4,886
202319#5,070
202219#5,015
202111#7,084
202019#4,851
201922#4,476
201823#4,350
201722#4,462
201632#3,440
201536#3,148
201431#3,454
201328#3,659
201219#4,857
201133#3,305
201018#5,044
200920#4,746
20086#11,030
20078#8,909
20066#10,655
200519#4,459
20049#7,530
200312#5,870
200211#6,081
200120#3,968
200010#6,309
199914#4,756
199811#5,460
19979#6,094
19968#6,489
199516#3,848
19948#6,366
19935#8,693
19920–
19916#7,263
19907#6,408
19890–
19885#7,264

Names like Abdulmalik

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Abdulmalik

More Arabic names

Every Arabic name

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Abdulmalik: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/abdulmalik, updated 20 October 2026.