Malaak
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- MA-lak
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Malaak is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “angel”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Malaak mean?
Arabic: spelling of Malak
“angel”
The Arabic word for angel.
Meaning borrowed from Malak.
Is Malaak a girl's or a boy's name?
Malaak is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Malaak in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2014, with 9 girls.
Half of all the girls named Malaak in the UK since 1996 were born between 2010 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
Malaak in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #4,251 |
| 2022 | 5 | #4,168 |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,864 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 6 | #3,788 |
| 2015 | 6 | #3,777 |
| 2014 | 9 | #2,809 |
| 2013 | 6 | #3,719 |
| 2012 | 5 | #4,390 |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 5 | #4,220 |
| 2009 | 4 | #4,795 |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 3 | #4,976 |
| 2004 | 3 | #4,789 |
| 2003 | 1 | #5,865 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 4 | #3,427 |
How popular is Malaak in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 11,928th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Malaak, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. Its busiest year was 2010, with 24 girls. It first appears in the records in 1992.
2025 had fewer girls named Malaak than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Malaak in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 144 girls in the US were given Malaak or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,312, up from #11,928 for this spelling alone.
- Malak 137
- Malaak 7
Malaak in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,674 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,401 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,801 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,408 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,263 |
| 2014 | 9 | #10,949 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,607 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,573 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,719 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,600 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,808 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,105 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,003 |
| 2006 | 15 | #7,865 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,259 |
| 2003 | 13 | #7,993 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,438 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,344 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,378 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,380 |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,435 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,308 |
Names like Malaak
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Zainab, Ayah, Hafsa, Aaliyah, Hiba, Rahma, Safaa, Sumayyah, Nusaybah, Amira, Huda
Other spellings of Malaak
Names related to Malaak
Malaika, Malika, Malka, Malky, Malaikah, Malayka, Malkia, Maleka
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo
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, “Malaak: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/malaak, updated 20 October 2026.