Malka

Where Malka comes from

Malka hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1887
    Malka Locker born
    Israeli poet, translator, literary theorist
  2. 1904
    Malka Lee born
    American writer
  3. 1946
    First appearance
    #4,960 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2024
    Peak, #984
    264 babies named Malka — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Malka Locker · Israeli poet, translator, literary theorist, 1887–1990
  • Malka Lee · American writer, 1904–1976
  • Malka Older · American author and humanitarian worker, born 1977
  • Malka Silberstein · Estonian lawyer, 1903–1941
  • Malka Drucker · American rabbi and writer, born 1945

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.