Malloy
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/malɔj/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Malloy is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Molloy.
- USUnited States1 in 20K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 683K
- DKDenmark1 in 838K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- 1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
16,546 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Variant of Molloy.
Sources 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Malloy 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 16,546 | 1 in 20K | 17K | Malloy | 21 |
| BR Brazil | 34 | 1 in 6.2M | 34 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 8 | 1 in 683K | 8 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 7 | 1 in 838K | 7 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 6 | 1 in 8.3M | 6 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 3 | 1 in 1.7M | 3 | — | — |
16,546 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
- Michael Malloyb. 1873USIrishman who lived in New York during the 1920s and 30s
- Norman Malloyb. 1913CACanadian ice hockey player (1913-1982)
- Judy Malloyb. 1942USAmerican writer and visual artist
- Mike Malloyb. 1942USAmerican broadcaster and pundit
- Larkin Malloyb. 1954USAmerican actor (1954-2016)
- Dannel Malloyb. 1955USAmerican politician
- Matt Malloyb. 1963USAmerican actor, producer
- Tom Malloyb. 1974USAmerican actor
- Dave Malloyb. 1976USAmerican composer and actor
- Marti Malloyb. 1986USAmerican judoka
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)
Attested in 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 17K | #2,200 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 16K | #2,070 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 16K | #2,211 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 34 | #136,957 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 8 | #60,947 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 7 | #50,106 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6 | #154,812 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 3 | #11,607 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Malloy mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Molloy. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- How do you pronounce Malloy?
- A machine transcription gives /malɔj/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Malloy have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Malloy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled malloy.
- Where is Malloy most common?
- Malloy is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 20 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Malloy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 16,546 people named Malloy in 2010, about 1 in 20 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/malloyThe 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, “Malloy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.