Melek (ملك) is the Turkish and Arabic word for "angel." Used as a feminine name across the Turkish-speaking and Arabic-speaking worlds.
Melek is widely used in modern Turkey.
Melek 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Melek reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.