Malik in Arabic: How to Write مالك, and What It Means

Malik in Arabic is مالك, pronounced Mālik. Malik is an Arabic name, so it has a fixed Arabic spelling. It has four letters: mīm, alif, lām and kāf. With its vowel marks it is مَالِك. The name means owner.

Copy the spelling you need from the table. The cells hold the plain letters of مالك with no hidden direction marks, and the Listen button reads Mālik in your device's Arabic voice, if it has one.

Malik in Arabic calligraphy: مالك in three styles

Three renders of مالك, in Amiri, Lemonada and Rakkas, drawn straight from the font files.

How مالك is spelled, letter by letter

مالك has four letters, read from right to left, starting with the letter م, mīm. One letter, ا alif, never joins the letter after it, so مالك always shows one small gap. Arabic writes only long vowels as letters. The two short vowels are marks that everyday spelling leaves out; مَالِك shows them.

What does Malik mean?

Malik means owner, from the Arabic root م ل ك. That is the meaning our Arabic name generator gives it, and the list of Arabic boy names with their meanings repeats it with its sources.

Two Arabic names are written Malik in English. مَالِك, Mālik with a long ā, means owner, and that is the name our name lists carry. مَلِك, Malik with a short a, means king: Behind the Name gives that meaning for Malik and adds that the spelling can also stand for Mālik. In Islamic tradition al-Malik, the King, is one of the 99 names of God, listed on our page of the 99 names of Allah with their meanings.

Malik in Latin letters and in Arabic

Malik was one of the 500 most common names given to boys born in the US in 2024, in the Social Security Administration's 2024 national file, as copied in the usbabynames data package. Whatever Latin spelling you start from, the Arabic is مالك. On paper the two differ by one letter: مالك has an alif after the mīm, ملك has none. Choose by meaning before you copy.

Do not build Malik from its English sound. A sound-by-sound converter turns it into ماليك, letter by letter m, aa, l, ee, k, and that is what the rule engine of our own name tool gives, marked as an estimate. Arabic already has this name, so copy مالك.

The titles Arabic Wikipedia gives people called Malik show how Arabic writers handle the name:

The American actor Malik Yoba is مالك يوبا, with the alif: the owner spelling.

Two related names on this site are Amir in Arabic, أمير and Zayn in Arabic, زين. For Arabic names to choose from, browse the Arabic boy names with their meanings, part of our Arabic vocabulary lists.

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