Malota
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
/maˈlɔ.ta/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Malota is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malawi than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 56K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 169K
- CHSwitzerland1 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.
- Malawi (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 85 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Malawi, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)Malota 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MW Malawi | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Malota | 5 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 289K | — | Malota | 7 |
| US United States | 200 | 1 in 1.7M | 250 | Malota | 85 |
| CZ Czechia | 192 | 1 in 56K | 192 | — | — |
| ID Indonesia | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Malota | 17 |
| CF Central African Republic | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Malota | 1 |
| LS Lesotho | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Malota | 1 |
| HR Croatia | 25 | 1 in 169K | 25 | — | — |
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; MVČR — living population register 2017; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)Malota 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 sla-pro, minority, smallness, trifle (something small in size)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, "Consiste en una caña o palo provisto de una hendidura en un extremo, donde se coloca una piedra que hace de proyectil" JMB El hombre preh. en el PV 51. .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
In Basque, ( Lar , A Apend ). "¡(Qué) blancura de mujer!, au emakume maloa, malota! " Lar . " Mardul ta ederra, guapo, hermoso" A Apend .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)- František Malotab. 1886CZarchitect in Bratislava, Slovakia (1886-1927)
- František Malotab. 1900CZCzech engineer
- Renato Malotab. 1989ALAlbanian footballer
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)Evidence
(measured from records)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 250 | #81,574 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 200 | #91,981 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 192 | #8,867 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 192 | #5,732 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 188 | #91,004 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 25 | #20,437 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- How do you pronounce Malota?
- It depends on the language: in Polish /maˈlɔ.ta/ (Wiktionary); in Swahili /malɔta/; in Spanish /malota/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Malota have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Malota in Malawi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled malota.
- How common is the name Malota?
- In the United States, the national register counted 200 people named Malota in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/malotaThe 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, “Malota”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.