Malô
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Malô is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From a vernacular form of Malakias.
- CACanada≈1 in 21K(inferred from the name graph)
- ALAlbania≈1 in 2.5K
- FIFinland1 in 10K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Malô itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 226 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
14,099 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Albania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Malo in ES Spain, US United States, CA Canada and Mala in IN India.
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(measured from records)
From a vernacular form of Malakias.
Sources 9
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Malô 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 14,099 | 1 in 94K | 14K | Mala | 8 |
| CZ Czechia | 6,765as Malá | 1 in 1.6K | 6.8K | — | — |
| ES Spain | 2,821as Mallo | 1 in 18K | 2.8K | Malo | 22 |
| US United States | 2,316 | 1 in 144K | 2.4K | Malo | 101 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 1 | Malo | 116 |
| AL Albania | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | 83 | — | — |
| SK Slovakia | 950as Malá | 1 in 5.7K | 950 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 811as Mallo | 1 in 4.2K | 811 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 535 | 1 in 10K | 535 | — | 1 |
14,099 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling malo. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; MVČR — living population register 2017; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Malô 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 zlw-slv, little, not much
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Malô mean, and where does it come from?
- From a vernacular form of Malakias. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 7 other sources.
- Is Malô a male or female name?
- Malô 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 Malô have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Malô, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mala.
- How common is the name Malô?
- In India, the national register counted 14,099 people named Malô, about 1 in 94 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mal%C3%B4The 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, “Malô”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.