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Melik

#11,528 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Malik

Melik has been given to 495 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #11,528 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1997, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Melik, 2025

1 in 553,000

Melik over time, 1880–2025

Boys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Melik: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Malik

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Melik means

Melik is a form of Malik.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Melik is used in Turkish.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Melik is a form of Malik. Malik has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Malik.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 495 boys were recorded with the name Melik between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 1997; its best national rank was #2,477 in 1997.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,500 in 2020 to #11,528 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,626 in 2015 to #11,528 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Melik?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,528
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Melik sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Melik. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Meliks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Melik was born before 2004 — so the typical Melik is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
36.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
63.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
495
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Choose a decade

2000s — 36.8% of all recorded uses (182).

Is Melik rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−3,954
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,028
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+98
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
18.2%
Peak was 1997 (33)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,477
1997

Spellings of Melik

Melik is not the most common spelling — Melvin is, with 33.2% against Melik's 0.07%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Melik is used

Across 1910–2025, Melik was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,148,299 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Georgia1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Melik has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Melik around the world

Where Melik ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2007–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • France
    1960–2025
    #2,668
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2005–2019
    #2,943
    in 2019

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Melik by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,528
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,028
Best rank ever
#2,477
1997
Peak year
1997
33 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
495
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Melik

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

MeloMelloJalikMelvenMaalikAlikMellMeldonTylikMelburnMelecioMelitonMenelikMelanieMelroyMelodyTalikMelindaMelekMelchorMeliodasMelquanKalikMelba

Sibling names for Melik

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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