Malato
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ill, sick, unwell
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries
/malatu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Malato is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 141K(measured from records)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 91K
- ITItaly≈1 in 199K
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)
- Record sources
- 48 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 91K (inferred from the name graph)
1,505 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)ill, sick, unwell
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Malato 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.
1,505 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the xinhua-italian-manual 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)Malato 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 Italian, ill, sick, unwell, affected, sore
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, leper
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, sickly, ailing
as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
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 Malatob. 1857FRFrench anarchist, writer, and publicist
- Enrico Malatob. 1935ITItalian literaty critic (1935-)
- José Carlos Malatob. 1964PTPortuguese television presenter (1964-)
- Sixto Malatob. 1964ESSpanish teacher, researcher, project manager and director
- Giusi Malatob. 1971ITItalian water polo 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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.5K | #6,322 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 157 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 84 | #31,134 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 84 | #31,054 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Malato mean, and where does it come from?
- ill, sick, unwell Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Malato?
- A machine transcription gives /malatu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Malato have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Malato, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled malato.
- How common is the name Malato?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,505 people named Malato, about 1 in 141 thousand 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/malatoThe 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, “Malato”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.