Malalai
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/mələɫaɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Malalai is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country.
- THThailand≈1 in 777Kas มะลาลัย(inferred from the name graph)
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Malalai 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.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 27 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 777K (inferred from the name graph)
≈89 named มะลาลัย, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Thailand, est., as มะลาลัย
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled มะลาลัย in TH Thailand.
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
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)Malalai 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 777K | register #480,353 | มะลาลัย | 27 |
| US United States | — | — | 210 | Malalai | 5 |
| SE Sweden | — | — | 37 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | — | 31 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | — | 30 | — | — |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 210 | #36,840 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 37 | #16,762 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 31 | #15,555 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #12,827 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #13,308 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 29 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 29 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 27 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 27 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 23 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 22 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 22 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Malalai a male or female name?
- Malalai is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- How do you pronounce Malalai?
- A machine transcription gives /mələɫaɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Malalai have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 89 people named มะลาลัย in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Malalai?
- Mondonomo estimates about 89 people in Thailand have มะลาลัย as their first surname, about 1 in 777 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Malalai?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/malalaiThe 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, “Malalai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.