Malaquías

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Malachi (the book of the Bible) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: RENAPER, 2006

/ma.laˈki.as/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary

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Malaquías is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

  • BRBrazil≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 13Kfew records
  • ARArgentina1 in 158K

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.

Brazil (inferred from the name graph)

≈20,000 people, est.

Record sources
116 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 8.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Angola, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Malaquias in BR Brazil, MX Mexico, AR Argentina and 2 more.

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.

How to pronounce Malaquías

  • Spanish:/ma.laˈki.as/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Malachi (the book of the Bible)

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Malaquías is found

(measured from records)

Malaquías 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.

Where Malaquías is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#488≈20,000 est.≈1 in 11K1.7KMalaquias116
AO Angola#786≈4,300 est.≈1 in 8.9K—Malaquias14
PT Portugal#922≈820 est.≈1 in 13KlistedMalaquias55
MX Mexico—≈580 est.≈1 in 226K21Malaquias54
AR Argentina—2881 in 158K288Malaquias23

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: IBGE — Nomes (census name API); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Malaquías is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Malaquias

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Malaquias

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Malaquías is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Spanish, Hebreo Malak-Ya, ‘ángel o mensajero de Yahvé’. Nombre del profeta bíblico y de un arzobispo irlandés del siglo XII.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)

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).

How to address them

(machine-generated)
InformalOlá Malaquías,Hi Malaquías, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence

(measured from records)

6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Malaquías mean, and where does it come from?
Malachi (the book of the Bible) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Malaquías?
In Spanish /ma.laˈki.as/ (Wiktionary).
Is Malaquías a male or female name?
Malaquías is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Malaquías?
Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Malaquías in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled malaquias. After it come Angola, Portugal, Mexico and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Malaquías?
In Argentina, the national register counted 288 people named Malaquías, about 1 in 158 thousand residents.
How common is Malaquías compared with other names?
In Brazil, Malaquías is the 488th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Malaquías” — ranked 2665th in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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