Malú
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/malu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Malú is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., Doppelform aus.
- BRBrazil1 in 17K(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 44K
- USUnited States1 in 753K
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)
- Sources
- 103 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
12,599 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Greenland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Malu in BR Brazil, PE Peru, US United States and 2 more.
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)
weibl. Vom., Doppelform aus
Sources 3
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Nordic Names
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Malú 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 12,599 | 1 in 17K | 13K | Malu | 103 |
| CO Colombia | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Malu | 23 |
| PE Peru | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Malu | 44 |
| US United States | 442 | 1 in 753K | 373 | Malu | 92 |
| CL Chile | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 58K | 2 | Malu | 28 |
| DK Denmark | 108 | 1 in 54K | 108 | — | — |
| GL Greenland | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 102 | — | 1 |
12,599 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5). 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)
Malú 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 Slovak, feminine accusative singular of malý
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)
- Malú Blockb. 1904MXMexican painter (1904-1989)
- Malú Gaticab. 1922CLChilean actor and singer
- Malú Huacuja del Torob. 1961MXMexican writer
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 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 2.9K | #4,796 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2019 | 6 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2017 | 5 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2014 | 5 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2004 | 4 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2013 | 3 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 2 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2020 | 2 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2018 | 2 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2015 | 2 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2008 | 2 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2007 | 2 | — |
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
- What does the name Malú mean, and where does it come from?
- weibl. Vom., Doppelform aus Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 1 other source.
- How do you pronounce Malú?
- A machine transcription gives /malu/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Malú a male or female name?
- Malú 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 Malú have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Malú, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled malu.
- How common is the name Malú?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 12,599 people named Malú in 2022, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Malú?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mal%C3%BAThe 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, “Malú”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.