Malea

given name · Latin script

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

/məɫiə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Malea is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 156K(measured from records)
  • ALAlbania1 in 181K
  • DKDenmark1 in 183K

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.

United States (measured from records)

2,130 people, 2020

Sources
205 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 156K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Malea 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 Malea is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2,1301 in 156K2.1KMalea205
ZA South Africa≈120 est.≈1 in 478K—Malea5
GB United Kingdom≈75 est.≈1 in 881KlistedMalea11
CA Canada≈53 est.≈1 in 715K1Malea12
PH Philippines≈46 est.≈1 in 2.4M—Malea14
DK Denmark321 in 183K32—3
SE Sweden291 in 352K29—2
SG Singapore≈26 est.≈1 in 243K—Malea2
AL Albania171 in 181K17——

2,130 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)

Malea is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Philippines, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Maléa, Maleä, Malèa

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Congo - Kinshasa

    Also written Maléa, Malèa

  • Swahili given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Africa, Kenya

    Also written Maléa

  • Romanian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United States

    Also written Mâlea

  • Greek given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece

    Also written Μαλεα, Μαλέα, Maléa

47 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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)

Malea 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 Catalan, archaic form of malesa

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

InformalHi Malea,

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)

Attested in 35 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Malea
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.1K#7,232
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—32#3,570
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202031#7,232
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—29#19,775
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202521—
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—17#8,027
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202011—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)200910—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)20078—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)20197—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)20226—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)20146—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

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

Frequently asked questions

Is Malea a male or female name?
Malea is a female 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.
In which country does Malea have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Malea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled malea.
Where is Malea most common?
Malea is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 156 thousand people carrying it.
How do you pronounce Malea?
A machine transcription gives /məɫiə/ (IPA) for English.
What are other forms of the name Malea?
In the etymology graph, Maria, Mary and Marie are forms of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Malea?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,130 people named Malea in 2020, about 1 in 156 thousand residents.

What do you want to know about Malea?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/malea

The 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, “Malea”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

See how Malea parses inside a full name →