Malik

18,478 people in the United States were counted with the surname Malik in the 2020 census, making it the 1,908th most common in the country. That is about one person in 16,200.

By the numbers

People: 18,478
Rank: 1,908th
How common: 1 in 16,200
Per 100,000: 6.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Arabic

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Malik described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 71.2%
White, not Hispanic 17.3%
Black, not Hispanic 4.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 2.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Malik

Zayn Malik (born 1993)English singer
Sakshi Malik (born 1992)Indian wrestler
Veena Malik (born 1984)Pakistani actress
Adam Malik (1917–1984)3rd Vice President of Indonesia
Anu Malik (born 1960)Indian music director and singer
Armaan Malik (born 1995)Indian singer-songwriter, record producer, voice-over, performer, dancer and actor
Charles Malik (1906–1987)Lebanese politician
Art Malik (born 1952)British actor

People named Malik with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Malik

Also a first name

Malik has been given to 49,866 American babies as a first name since 1949, peaking in 1996. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.