Malagón
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Malagón is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country: 3,214 people, counted by INE. Recorded meaning: habitational name from Malagon, a place in Ciudad Real, or from any of the other places so named in Galicia, in A Coruna, Lugo, and Orense provinces.
- ESSpain1 in 16K(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 54Kfew records
- USUnited States1 in 107K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 198 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
3,214 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Malagon in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)habitational name from Malagon, a place in Ciudad Real, or from any of the other places so named in Galicia, in A Coruna, Lugo, and Orense provinces.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Malagón is found
(measured from records)Malagón counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 3,214 | 1 in 16K | 3.2K | Malagón | 54 |
| US United States | 3,115 | 1 in 107K | 3.2K | Malagon | 198 |
| CO Colombia | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 54K | 6 | Malagón | 31 |
| MX Mexico | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 641K | 208 | Malagón | 36 |
| AR Argentina | 64 | 1 in 711K | 64 | Malagón | 6 |
| UY Uruguay | 31 | 1 in 109K | 31 | — | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | 8 | 1 in 637K | 8 | — | 1 |
3,214 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos), counting the spelling malagon. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); the co-datosgov-candidates register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Pedro de Villafrancab. 1615ESnot in their usual nameSpanish baroque painter and engraver (c.1615-1684)
- Cecilio Mariano Guerrero Malagónb. 1909ESSpanish painter and sculptor (1909-1996)
- Ana Malagon Zalduab. 1978ESBasque writer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Malagón mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from Malagon, a place in Ciudad Real, or from any of the other places so named in Galicia, in A Coruna, Lugo, and Orense provinces. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Malagón?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Malagón, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled malagón. After it come United States, Colombia, Mexico and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Malagón most common?
- Malagón is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 16 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Malagón?
- In Spain, the national register counted 3,214 people named Malagón, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/malag%C3%B3nThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Malagón” — ranked 1601st in Spain (INE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.