Given name & surname
Melika
“a great beauty”
Melika is used as a given name and a surname. One Turkish interpretation is “a great beauty.”
Original TurkishMelike
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Turkish interpretation is “a great beauty.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Turkish.
How it developed
From Ottoman Turkish ملكه (melike, “queen”); its root is Arabic م ل ك.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1971. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Melika through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 406
- 0 boys · 406 girls
- Most popular year
- 1989
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #14,346 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −29%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 14,346 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 643 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Melika’s family of names
In English usage, Melika has a diminutive in Mel. Melika shares a linguistic root with the English form Malika. In Hawaiian usage, Melika has a conventional equivalent in the German form Melitta.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Melika has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its Turkish roots to each of them.
Turkishwhere Melika comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 14
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Melika
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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