Maltêz
surname · Latin script
Maltêz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nicaragua than in any other country.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 12K
- ARArgentina1 in 78K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nicaragua (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 132 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,600 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Maltez in NI Nicaragua, US United States, BR Brazil and 5 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.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maltêz 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NI Nicaragua | #150 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Maltez | 28 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,557 | 1 in 136K | 1.6K | Maltez | 80 |
| US United States | — | 781 | 1 in 426K | 813 | Maltez | 132 |
| PT Portugal | #713 | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Maltez | 66 |
| AR Argentina | — | 580 | 1 in 78K | 580 | Maltez | 34 |
| SV El Salvador | #581 | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Maltez | 12 |
| CR Costa Rica | #417 | 457 | 1 in 11K | 457 | Maltez | 18 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 125 | 1 in 27K | 125 | Maltez | 10 |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Maltêz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.6 thousand people named Maltêz in Nicaragua, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maltez.
- How common is the name Maltêz?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,557 people named Maltêz, about 1 in 136 thousand residents.
- How common is Maltêz compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Maltêz is the 150th most common surname of 5,756 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Maltêz?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/malt%C3%AAzThe 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, “Maltêz” — the 150th most common surname in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.