Maleka
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- muh-LEE-kuh
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Maleka is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “queen”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Maleka mean?
Arabic: variant of Malika, Arabic 'queen'
“queen”
Variant of Malika, the Arabic word for queen, used as a name across the Muslim world.
Is Maleka a girl's or a boy's name?
Maleka is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Maleka in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #14,937among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Maleka, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 1980, with 23 girls. It first appears in the records in 1970.
Half of all the girls named Maleka in the US since 1880 were born between 1980 and 1997, the years shaded on the chart below.
Maleka in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,120 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,477 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,401 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,476 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,514 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,574 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,185 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,864 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,125 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,252 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,091 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,413 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,477 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,423 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,459 |
| 1989 | 11 | #6,949 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,060 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,608 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,745 |
| 1985 | 9 | #6,952 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,396 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,210 |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,407 |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,506 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,426 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,459 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,651 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,599 |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,852 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,775 |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,290 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,541 |
| 1970 | 5 | #7,994 |
Names like Maleka
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aisha Samira Amira Khadija Jamila Malika Amina Maha Madiha Aziza Halima Naima
Names related to Maleka
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Aaliyah Amir Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Omar Zahra Hamza Kairo
Sources
Figures from 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, “Maleka: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/maleka, updated 20 October 2026.