Mallen

Mallen is one spelling over 3 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.

• English61%

  An English surname originating as a matronymic, variant of Malin.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  Spanish (Aragonese Mallen); habitational name from Mallen in Zaragoza province.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

  variant spelling of Malin.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

  variant of Mellon.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• Spanish22%

  inflection of mallar:

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• French7.6%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Mallen in French.

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Mallen is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, Mexico, Philippines, United States

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Mallén

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Mallén

• Norwegian surname10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Philippines

  Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish

  Also written Mallén, Mällën

• Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, India, Spain

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  Also written Mallén, Mâlléñ

• Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Egypt, Spain, Saudi Arabia

  Also written Mallén

• Italian surname2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Italy, Spain

  Also written Mallén

35 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Mallen is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Catalan, third-person plural present indicative of mallar

  as a word·kaikki.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.

• Ana Caro de Mallénb. 1590ESSpanish poet and playwright
• Juan Montón y Mallénb. 1730ESSpanish composer
• Jim Mallenb. 1881CACanadian ice hockey player (1881-1954)
• Ken Mallenb. 1884CACanadian ice hockey player (1884–1930)
• Martín Mallén Olletab. 1900ESSpanish composer
• Katherine Mallen Kupfererb. 2009USAmerican actress
• Juanma MallenESactor
• Mary MallenUSAmerican actor and stage actor
• Lucia MallenESSpanish association football player
• Isabel Ruiz-MallenESresearcher, ORCID id # 0000-0002-9679-3329

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).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Mallen mean, and where does it come from?

An English surname originating as a matronymic, variant of Malin. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

How do you pronounce Mallen?

In Spanish /maʎen/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

In which country does Mallen have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Mallen in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mallen.

Where is Mallen most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mallen is densest in Spain — about 1 in 30 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Mallen?

In Spain, the national register counted 1,662 people named Mallen, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.