Malaikah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ma-LY-ka
- Origin
- Swahili
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,101 for girls
Malaikah is a girls' name of Swahili origin, meaning “angel”. In 2025 it ranked 3,101st for girls in the UK (8 babies).
What does Malaikah mean?
Swahili: spelling of Malaika; from Arabic
“angel”
Swahili for angel, from Arabic; Malaika is also the title of a famous Swahili love song.
Meaning borrowed from Malaika.
Is Malaikah a girl's or a boy's name?
Malaikah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Malaikah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,101st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 35,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 14% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the UK were named Malaikah, making it the 3,101st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,110th. Its busiest year was 2004, with 25 girls.
Half of all the girls named Malaikah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2005 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 43 girls in the UK were given Malaikah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #810, up from #3,101 for this spelling alone.
- Malaika 35
- Malaikah 8
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,033rd in England and Wales.
Malaikah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #3,101 |
| 2024 | 10 | #2,644 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 7 | #3,347 |
| 2021 | 9 | #2,846 |
| 2020 | 5 | #4,110 |
| 2019 | 8 | #3,018 |
| 2018 | 8 | #3,068 |
| 2017 | 7 | #3,395 |
| 2016 | 14 | #2,111 |
| 2015 | 17 | #1,813 |
| 2014 | 7 | #3,321 |
| 2013 | 11 | #2,454 |
| 2012 | 12 | #2,319 |
| 2011 | 9 | #2,794 |
| 2010 | 18 | #1,694 |
| 2009 | 10 | #2,478 |
| 2008 | 20 | #1,499 |
| 2007 | 16 | #1,694 |
| 2006 | 24 | #1,188 |
| 2005 | 21 | #1,250 |
| 2004 | 25 | #1,048 |
| 2003 | 12 | #1,730 |
| 2002 | 9 | #2,040 |
| 2001 | 4 | #3,427 |
| 2000 | 3 | #4,074 |
Names like Malaikah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah, Safa, Zainab, Sumayyah, Summer, Aaminah, Nusaybah, Ruqayyah, Umaymah, Musfirah, Umamah, Safiya
Other spellings of Malaikah
Names related to Malaikah
More Swahili names
Zuri, Imani, Emani, Jabari, Zhuri, Imara, Maisha, Asante, Imaani, Taraji, Xuri, Zuriyah, Johari, Simba, Zamani, Ahmani
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Malaikah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/malaikah, updated 20 October 2026.