Malik Family History
- Malik Name Meaning
- Muslim and Hindu (mainly Panjab): status name from a title meaning ‘lord’, ‘ruler’, ‘chief’, from Arabic malik ‘king’. In the subcontinent this is often found as a title for the headman of a village. In Islam Al-Malik ‘the King’ is one of the attributes of Allah, regarded as ‘the king of mankind’ (Qur’an 114:2), and this word is used in combination in names such as ?Abd-ul Malik ‘servant of the King’. This was the name of an Umayyad khalif (685–705). Czech, Slovak (Malík), and Slovenian: nickname for a small person, from a pet form of a vocabulary word meaning ‘small’ (Polish maly, Czech malý ‘small’, Slovenian mali). Compare Maly.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 96,662 Historical Documents with Malik on Ancestry
- 71,246 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 7,819 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,912 Military Records
- 4,901 Immigration Records
- 8,784 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Malik census records
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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