Malaise
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: malaise, uneasiness, cringe
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/malɛz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Malaise is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.4M(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 19K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 97 (measured from records)
- 1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
625 people, 2008
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)malaise, uneasiness, cringe
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Malaise is read
(measured from records)Malaise is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French67%
malaise, uneasiness, cringe
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English24%
A feeling of general bodily discomfort, fatigue or unpleasantness, often at the onset of illness.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Malaise 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | 625 | 1 in 19K | 625 | Malaise | 20 |
| US United States | 136 | 1 in 2.4M | 136 | Malaise | 97 |
| DE Germany | — | — | — | Malaise | 29 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Malaise | 25 |
| CA Canada | — | — | — | Malaise | 6 |
| IT Italy | — | — | — | Malaise | 1 |
| PK Pakistan | — | — | — | Malaise | 1 |
625 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)Malaise is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, discomfort, unease
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, depression, a period of major economic contraction
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)- Charles Malaiseb. 1775BEBelgian sculptor (1775–1836)
- Constantin Malaiseb. 1834BEbotanical collector (1834 - 1916)
- René Malaiseb. 1892SESwedish entomologist (1892–1978)
- Pierre Malaiseb. 1898FRFrench military personnel (1898-1971)
- Catherine Malaiséb. 1961FRFrench politician
- Dub MalaiseUSbasketball player
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 625 | #2,354 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 579 | #2,575 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 136 | #126,018 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 127 | #136,807 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 125 | #126,400 |
| 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)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Malaise mean, and where does it come from?
- malaise, uneasiness, cringe Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Malaise?
- A machine transcription gives /malɛz/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Malaise have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 625 people named Malaise, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled malaise.
- Where is Malaise most common?
- Malaise is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 19 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Malaise?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 625 people named Malaise in 2008, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/malaiseThe 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, “Malaise”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.