Malica
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Malica is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mozambique than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 23K(measured from records)
- MZMozambique≈1 in 26K
- MDMoldova1 in 168K
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.
- Mozambique (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- 1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Malica 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MZ Mozambique | #613 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Malica | 4 |
| US United States | — | 145 | 1 in 2.3M | 123 | Malica | 19 |
| FR France | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 635K | 80 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 75 | 1 in 2.8M | 75 | Malica | 6 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 1 | — | 6 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 329K | 9 | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | — | 33 | 1 in 23K | 33 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 33 | 1 in 178K | 33 | — | — |
| MD Moldova | — | 20 | 1 in 168K | 20 | — | — |
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; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); e-services.md — living population register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
Malica 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 Italian, feminine singular of malico
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, malicious
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 123 | #46,195 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 1968 | 80 | #1,043 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 75 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 75 | #50,418 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 57 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 50 | #34,986 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 39 | #51,952 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 33 | #561 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 33 | #3,550 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 22 | #46,195 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 20 | #2,039 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 18 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- Is Malica a male or female name?
- Malica is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Malica have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Malica in Mozambique, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled malica.
- Where is Malica most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Malica is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 23 thousand people — even though Mozambique holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Malica?
- In the United States, the national register counted 145 people named Malica in 2020, about 1 in 2.3 million residents.
- How common is Malica compared with other names?
- In Mozambique, Malica is the 613th most common given name of 1,034 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Malica?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/malicaThe 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, “Malica” — the 613th most common given name in Mozambique. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.