Malfi
surname · Latin script
Meaning: forma popular, redução de Amalfi
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/məlfi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Malfi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.3M(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 1.7M
- BRBrazil1 in 3.2M
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 31 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3M (inferred from the name graph)
67 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)forma popular, redução de Amalfi
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
How Malfi is read
(measured from records)Malfi is one spelling over 5 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.
- English42%
play by Webster
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- French17%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Malfi in French.
- Portuguese11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Malfi in Portuguese.
- Italian9.7%
forma popular, redução de Amalfi
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Variante di Amalfi
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Spanish5.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Malfi in Spanish.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Malfi 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 | 67 | 1 in 3.2M | 67 | Malfi | 31 |
| ES Spain | 29 | 1 in 1.7M | 29 | Malfi | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | 13 | 1 in 1.3M | 13 | — | 3 |
| PL Poland | 4 | 1 in 9.6M | 2 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | 1 |
67 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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ronald Malfib. 1977USAmerican novelist (born 1977)
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)13 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) | — | 67 | #85,160 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 29 | #65,909 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 29 | #64,358 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 13 | #58,269 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #362,305 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #357,378 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #194,701 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Malfi mean, and where does it come from?
- forma popular, redução de Amalfi Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Malfi?
- A machine transcription gives /məlfi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Malfi have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 67 people named Malfi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled malfi.
- Where is Malfi most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Malfi is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 1.3 million people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Malfi?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 67 people named Malfi, about 1 in 3.2 million 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/malfiThe 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, “Malfi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.