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
- 1887Malka Locker bornIsraeli poet, translator, literary theorist
- 1904Malka Lee bornAmerican writer
- 1946First appearance#4,960 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
- 2024Peak, #984264 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.