Melika is from the Persian ملیکا (Melīkā — queen, sovereign) — foundational from Arabic malika (queen) — foundational feminine of malik (king). A modern American baby name in the broader Persian-Arabic heritage aesthetic. Melika is one of the foundational Persian + Arabic feminine names — central to traditional Persian + Muslim heritage. The foundational Arabic malik / malika (king/queen) is foundational central to foundational pan-Semitic-Persian royalty-naming heritage + foundational cognate with foundational Hebrew Melech (king) + Aramaic Malka + foundational central to foundational Islamic monarchy heritage spanning foundational Maliks of foundational Arabia + Persia + Ottoman Empire + Mughal Empire + Morocco + Jordan + Bahrain + Saudi Arabia. Notable bearer: Melika Mahmoudi Iranian artist; foundational also foundational Bilqis (Queen of Sheba — Malika Saba foundational legendary Yemeni-Ethiopian queen who visited foundational King Solomon ~10th c. BCE — central to foundational Hebrew Bible 1 Kings 10 + foundational Quran 27:22-44 Surah An-Naml + foundational pan-Abrahamic queenly heritage); foundational Maleeka Khan Persian/Indian heritage. Foundational Persian feminine name reflecting Persian-Arabic royalty heritage.
Featured throughout Persian heritage.
Melika does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Melika reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.