Malou
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a diminutive of the female given name Marie-Louise
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məlu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Malou is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 8.6K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 13K
- DKDenmark1 in 1.6K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 122 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a diminutive of the female given name Marie-Louise
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Malou, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Malou 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 13K | listed | Malou | 67 |
| DK Denmark | #702 | 3,735 | 1 in 1.6K | 3.7K | Malou | 77 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 2,012 | 1 in 8.6K | 2K | Malou | 51 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 46K | 1.4K | — | 3 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,424 | 1 in 7.2K | 1.4K | Malou | 42 |
| LU Luxembourg | #447 | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Malou | 5 |
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: the ph-wiktionary-names register; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Malou is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Malou är en sammanslagning av delar av namnen → Marie och → Louise, tidigare oftast använd som smekform till dubbelnamnet Marie-Louise. En känd namnbärare är journalisten Malou (egentligen Marie-Louise) von Sivers (f. 1953).
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Slovak, feminine instrumental singular of malý
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form of malwe
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)
- Malou Airaudob. 1948FRFrench professor and music educator
- Malou von Siversb. 1953SESwedish TV host and journalist
- Malou de Guzmanb. 1958PHFilipino actress
- Malou Aamundb. 1969DKFolketinget member
- Malou Hanssonb. 1983SESwedish actor-model
- Maloub. 1984DKDanish former softcore porn actress
- Malou Reymannb. 1988NLDanish actress
- Malou Pheninckxb. 1991NLDutch field hockey player (1991-)
- Malou Ejdesgaardb. 1991DKDanish tennis player
- Merle Fräbelb. 2003DEnot in their usual nameGerman Luger
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)
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 51 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3.7K | #168 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 2K | #824 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 1.6K | #1,599 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.4K | #2,165 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.4K | #1,338 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 839 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 2014 | 151 | #45 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 5 | #27,027 |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
| PH Philippines | Tagalog given names (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Malou mean, and where does it come from?
- a diminutive of the female given name Marie-Louise Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Malou?
- In the etymology graph, Marilou, Marie-Louise and Milou are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Malou?
- A machine transcription gives /məlu/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Malou a male or female name?
- Malou 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 Malou have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.2 thousand people named Malou in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled malou.
- Where is Malou most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Malou is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 1.6 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Malou?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 3,735 people named Malou, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Malou compared with other names?
- In Luxembourg, Malou is the 447th most common given name of 521 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Malou?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/malouThe 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, “Malou” — the 447th most common given name in Luxembourg. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.