Entry № 6338 · Sanskrit origin

Malika Malika — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mah-LEE-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Garland / queen (Arabic)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "garland / queen (arabic)".

Malika is from the Sanskrit Mālikā.

Garland / queen (Arabic) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

मालिका
Transliteration
Mālikā
Pronunciation
/ məˈliː.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Malika stands.

Malika does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Malikas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Vaijayanti-mala Vishnu / Malika Sarabhai
Sanskrit garland string-of-flowers + Arabic Malika queen + Vaijayanti-mala Vishnu-Krishnas sacred-garland of five gems + Malik Ambar Ahmadnagar Sultanate 1600-1626 + Malika Sarabhai classical dancer
Hindu Islamic

Names connected to Malika.

The number behind Malika.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Malika reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.