Malik

girls:

259 births since 1970

#5457 (4th percentile)

boys:

48.1k births since 1949

#513 (89th percentile)

overall:

48.4k births since 1949

#1101 (86th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Malik".

1949 2023 19492023

Key Statistics

Total Births
259
Peak Births
30
Peak Year
1995
First Recorded
1970
Peak Percentile
2.9%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#740
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
48,119
Peak Births
4,026
Peak Year
1996
First Recorded
1949
Peak Percentile
87.6%
Current Percentile
60.7%
Peak Rank
#97
Current Rank
#359
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Malik

Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Malik. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 33.3% confident that Malik is pronounced as muh-LEEK. The next most likely pronunciation is MAH-lihk, at 23.5% confidence.

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MA-lihk (2 syllables)
Verified
19.6% confidence
M AE1 L IH0 K
muh-LIHK (2 syllables)
17.6% confidence
M AH0 L IH1 K
mah-LEEK (2 syllables)
5.9% confidence
M AA0 L IY1 K

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Malik. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Malik, please vote using the thumbs up button.

MAH-lehk (2 syllables)
4 names 2.9k births
M AA1 L EH0 K
muh-LEHK (2 syllables)
4 names 2.9k births
M AH0 L EH1 K

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like M AH0 L IY1 K) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.