Malka

Where Malka comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Malka.

  • Vowel-ended
Malka through the years
  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 with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2024
    Peak, #984
    264 babies named Malka, the most in any year.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

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.