Malik (name)
Malik , Malek , Mālik or Malík is a male given name and a family name .
Origin and meaning
Malik ( Arabic ملك) is Arabic and means king . Even in pre-Islamic Arabia, some tribal chiefs had this title, for example Haudha ibn ʿAlī, the head of the Banū Hanīfa. In Armenia, Malik is a title of nobility.
The name Malik or Malík also exists in the Slavic region (e.g. in the Czech Republic) and means little finger in Czech ; in Bulgarian малък (malək) means small . The feminine form is Malika . The Turkish version of the name is Melik. The name Malik also occurs in Greenland , the Greenlandic meaning is "wave".
variants
Name bearer
First name
- Mālik ibn Anas (715–795), founder of the Maliki school of law (Madhhab)
- Malik Allen (* 1978), American basketball player
- Malik Ambar (1549–1626), Indian Prime Minister of Ethiopian origin
- Malik Arrendell (* 1973), German basketball player
- Malik Batmaz (* 2000), Turkish-German soccer player
- Malik Bendjelloul (1977-2014), Swedish documentary filmmaker
- Malik Beširević (* 1972), German handball player
- Malik Buari (* 1984), Ghanaian-English soccer player
- Malik Couturier (* 1982), French football player
- Malik Fathi (* 1983), German soccer player
- Malik Dohan al-Hasan (* 1920), Iraqi politician
- Nidal Malik Hasan (* 1970), American military psychiatrist
- Malik Harris , German pop musician and songwriter
- Malik Jabir (* 1944), Ghanaian soccer player and coach
- Malik Joyeux (1980-2005), Tahitian big wave surfer
- Malik Mezzadri (* 1969), French jazz flutist
- Malik Migara (* 1989), Sri Lankan soccer player
- Malik Moore (* 1976), American basketball player
- Malik Muadh (* 1981), Saudi Arabian soccer player
- Malik Feroz Khan Noon (1893-1970), Pakistani politician
- Malik Rahim (* 1948), American anti-racist
- Malik Rose (* 1974), American basketball player
- Alhaji Malik Alhassan Yakubu (* 19 **), Second Deputy Speaker of the Parliament in Ghana
- Malik Yoba (* 1967), American actor
- Malik Zidi (* 1975), French actor
family name
- Abdul Malik (* 1968), Singaporean football referee
- Abdul Motaleb Malik (1905–1977), Pakistani diplomat and politician
- Adam Malik (1917–1984), Indonesian politician and Foreign Minister of Indonesia
- Ahmed Abdul-Malik (1927–1993), American jazz musician
- Andrzej Malik (* 1970), Polish ski jumper
- Anu Malik (* 1960), Indian composer
- Art Malik (* 1952), British-Pakistani actor
- Batyr Malik (1129–1185), King of Kyrgyzstan
- Charles Malik (1906–1987), Lebanese politician, President of the thirteenth UN General Assembly (1958)
- Ewa Malik (* 1961), Polish politician
- Fredmund Malik (* 1944), Austrian economist
- Ghais Abdel Malik (1930–2016), Egyptian bishop
- Gulfam Malik (* 1957), German politician (SPD)
- Hanzala Malik (* 1956), Scottish politician
- Ibn Mālik (1205–1274), Spanish-Arabic scholar
- Iftikhar Malik (* 1990), German politician
- Jakow Alexandrowitsch Malik (1906–1980), Soviet diplomat and politician
- Janusz Malik (* 1964), Polish ski jumper
- Jitendra Malik (* 1960), Indian-American computer scientist
- Julia Malik (* 1976), German actress
- Kenan Malik (* 1960), British publicist
- Kolja Malik (* 1990), German film director and screenwriter
- Marek Malík (* 1975), Czech ice hockey player
- Moazzam Malik , British diplomat
- Muhammad Asad Malik (1941-2020), Pakistani hockey player
- Omar Hayat Malik (1894–1982), Pakistani diplomat
- Osama Malik (* 1990), Australian soccer player
- Polina Malik (* 1998), Israeli volleyball player
- Ram Malik (* 1991), Indian soccer player
- Raphe Malik (1948–2006), American free jazz trumpeter
- Rehman Malik (* 1951), Pakistani politician
- Richard Malik (1909–1945), German football player
- SK Malik (* 1930), officer in the Pakistani army
- Sakshi Malik (* 1992), Indian wrestler
- Satya Pal Malik (* 1946), Indian politician
- Tegwen Malik (* 1975), Welsh squash player
- Timur Malik , governor of the city of Khujand in present-day Tajikistan during the rule of the Khorezm Shahs in Central Asia
- Vinzenz Malik (1854–1924), Austrian politician (DnP), member of the National Council
- Witthart Malik , German harpsichordist and composer
- Wittwulf Y Malik (* 1946), German musician, composer and performance artist
- Zain Javadd Malik (* 1993), British singer in the boy band One Direction, see Zayn
- Zbigniew Malik (* 1962), Polish ski jumper
distribution
In 2000-2003, Malik was the most popular boy name in Greenland.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Malik on behindthename.com (English)
- ↑ See Elias Shoufany: Al-Riddah and the Muslim Conquest of Arabia . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1973. p. 28.
- ↑ http://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/Malik Malik - Nordic Names, accessed 2011/02/03
- ↑ http://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/Greenlandic_Statistics_of_2000-2003 Greenlandic Statistics, viewed 2011/02/03