Malpica
surname · Latin script
Meaning: composto de mal[a] e Pica
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/malpika/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Malpica is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 4K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 17K
- COColombia≈1 in 32K
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.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 161 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
composto de mal[a] e Pica
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world(measured from records)
Malpica 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #513 | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Malpica | 58 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Malpica | 54 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 32K | 2 | Malpica | 50 |
| US United States | — | 1,174 | 1 in 283K | 1.2K | Malpica | 161 |
| ES Spain | — | 889 | 1 in 56K | 889 | Malpica | 66 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Malpica | 3 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
- Carlos Malpica Rivarolab. 1908PEPeruvian politician
- Carlos Malpica Silva Santistebanb. 1929PEPeruvian politician
- Riccardo Malpicab. 1931ITItalian politician and mayor
- Augusto Valqui Malpicab. 1948PEPeruvian economist
- Pedro Malpicab. 1950PEPeruvian composer
- Javier Malpicab. 1965MXMexican writer
- Karim Malpicab. 1978MXMexican basketball player (born 1978)
- Marina Malpicab. 2000Mexican rhythmic gymnast
- Claudia Malpica LanderESresearcher
- Cristhopher CruzPEnot in their usual namePeruvian chemist
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 15 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #21,898 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #22,069 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 889 | #4,915 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 889 | #4,910 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 762 | #29,261 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 2 | #114 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Malpica mean, and where does it come from?
- composto de mal[a] e Pica Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Malpica?
- A machine transcription gives /malpika/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Malpica have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.2 thousand people named Malpica in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled malpica.
- How common is the name Malpica?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,174 people named Malpica in 2010, about 1 in 283 thousand residents.
- How common is Malpica compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Malpica is the 513th most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Malpica?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/malpicaThe 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, “Malpica” — the 513th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.