Malua

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

rarermore common
  • DKDenmark1 in 210K(measured from records)
  • GYGuyana1 in 750K
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 5.1M

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

34 people, 2022

Sources
12 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 210K (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

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.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Malua 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 Malua is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil341 in 6.2M34——
DK Denmark281 in 210K28——
US United States≈14 est.≈1 in 24Mlisted—1
CZ Czechia21 in 5.4M2——
GY Guyana11 in 750K1——
CR Costa Rica11 in 5.1M1——

34 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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 — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); MVČR — living population register 2017; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)

Malua is also recorded as 4 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 Malúa

  • Spanish given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Málua, Mälüâ, Maluá, Malúa, Maluã

  • English given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, India, New Zealand

    Also written Malúa

  • Bangla given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Bangladesh

    Also written মলয়া, মুল্যা, মলুয়া, Maluya, মালয়া

34 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)

Malua is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In lua, pi. of 5 or 6, n., beer made from brewing corn or millet or cassava; sometimes used for palm wine. Rarely the sing. bualua is heard.

    as a wordGrammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language

  • In men, also maluwa, 7., fear ; something inspiring awe, reverence, respect

    as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language

  • In wha, soft ([Stresemann 1927:164](Source#cldf:stresemann1927))

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In nlg, soft, pliable, easy

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In poz-cet-pro, soft, pliable

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In seh, rounded, ovnlf

    as a wordGrammatica do Chisena

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 17 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Malua
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202234—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—28#3,993
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—24#86,756
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—2#56,895
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 202520251#593
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—1#39,637
CZ CzechiaCZSO — 100 nejčetnějších dětských jmen (top 100 baby names 2024)2016—#252

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname 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 Malua a male or female name?
Malua is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Malua have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 34 people named Malua, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Malua most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Malua is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 210 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Malua?
In Brazil, the national register counted 34 people named Malua in 2022, about 1 in 6.2 million residents.

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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, “Malua”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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