Globally, Malay (Malay 
, Malai 
, Малай 
) is a widespread predominantly masculine, but very seldom female forename. The forename Malay is habitual in India, where it is quite a rare primarily boy's, but scarcely female name, Qatar, where it is quite a rare boy's name, and Oman. Measured by absolute frequency, it most frequently occurs in India, Bangladesh, and Saudi Arabia. Much less frequently, Malay is the last name as well as the forename.
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| Malay | Myanmar, India, Bangladesh, Thailand, Turkey |
| Malai | Myanmar, Moldova, India, Thailand, Turkey |
| Малай | Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan |
| Malais | Philippines, Romania, India, France, United States |
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malay ghosh statistician and professor, US (b. 1937) |
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| malay kumar banerjee b.1 January 1933 d.6 March 1993 (b. 1933) |
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| malay kumar lahiri Indian footballer, IN (b. 1934) |
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| malay banerjee Indian cricketer, IN (b. 1955) |
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| malay phcar (b. 1966) |
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| malay kishore dutta researcher |
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| michael malay researcher |
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| st. mahisal malay Indonesian political candidate, ID |
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| malay k ghosh researcher |
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| malay s rao researcher |
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| malay dalui researcher ORCID ID = 0000-0003-1313-430X |
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| malay sarkar researcher |
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| malay patra researcher |
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| malay shukla researcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-7239-5537 |
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| malay bikas chowdhuri researcher |
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