Entry № 11890 · Hausa origin

Zalika Zalika — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ zah-LEE-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hausa
Meaning
"Well-born, beautiful"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Hausa)

A name that means "well-born, beautiful".

Zalika is a Hausa and Swahili name meaning "well-born" or "of noble birth." Used across West and East Africa.

Zalika is rising in the African diaspora.

Well-born. The Hausa nobility.

The name in its native script.

Zalika
Transliteration
Zalika
Pronunciation
/ zəˈliː.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Zalika stands.

Zalika 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.

Zalikas before her.

Real people
Zalika
Common across the Sahel.
In fiction
Zalika
Common in African fiction.

Names connected to Zalika.

The number behind Zalika.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Zalika reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.