Males
surname · Latin script
Meaning: plural of mal
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Males is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 146K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 507K
- ECEcuador1 in 2.5K
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 Males 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.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 192 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
6,756 people, 2024
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
plural of mal
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Males 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | 6,756 | 1 in 2.5K | 6.8K | Males | 18 |
| HR Croatia | 1,077 | 1 in 3.9K | 1.1K | Males | 30 |
| US United States | 656 | 1 in 507K | 792 | Males | 192 |
| ES Spain | 499as Malet | 1 in 100K | 499 | Males | 29 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 146K | — | Males | 106 |
| SI Slovenia | 357as Malić | 1 in 5.9K | 357 | — | 1 |
| RS Serbia | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Males | 13 |
| UY Uruguay | 112as Malet | 1 in 30K | 112 | — | — |
6,756 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: INEC — civil registry names; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Males is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, second-person singular future active indicative of mālō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In poz-cet-pro, become soft or weak (of things or people)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Estonian, inessive singular of male
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, genitive singular of Mal
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, feminine plural of malu
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)
- Carolyn Malesb. 1946USAmerican writer and photographer
- Mikael Malesb. 1977SESwedish philologist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 14 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Males mean, and where does it come from?
- plural of mal Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Males have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 6.8 thousand people named Males, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled males.
- Where is Males most common?
- Males is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Males?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 6,756 people named Males in 2024, about 1 in 2.5 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/malesThe 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, “Males”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.