Maltais
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ethnic name for a man from Malta, from maltais ‘Maltese’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/məɫˈteɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Maltais is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 775K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
- BEBelgium1 in 3.9M
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)
- Sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- 1 in 775K (inferred from the name graph)
429 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
ethnic name for a man from Malta, from maltais ‘Maltese’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maltais 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 | 429 | 1 in 775K | 429 | Maltais | 46 |
| BE Belgium | 3 | 1 in 3.9M | 3 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
| CA Canada | — | — | — | Maltais | 99 |
| FR France | — | — | — | Maltais | 50 |
| CU Cuba | — | — | — | Maltais | 2 |
429 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Maltais is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Maltese, the Maltese language
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, altération de Malteste, de l’ancien français mal(e) teste « mauvaise tête », surnom d’un individu têtu, grognon, indocile.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In Portuguese, second-person plural present indicative of maltar
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Auguste Maltaisb. 1916CACanadian politician
- Lauréat Maltaisb. 1923CACanadian politician (1923-1979)
- Pierre Maltaisb. 1937CAFrench-Canadian guru and leader of the eco-sects
- Ghislain Maltaisb. 1944CACanadian politician
- André Maltaisb. 1948CACanadian politician
- Agnès Maltaisb. 1956CACanadian politician (born 1956)
- Steve Maltaisb. 1969CACanadian ice hockey player
- Dominique Maltaisb. 1980CAsnowboarder
- Valérie Maltaisb. 1990CACanadian speed skater
- Emma Maltaisb. 1999CACanadian ice hockey player
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 10 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 429 | #49,087 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 396 | #55,864 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 379 | #51,583 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #125,735 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Maltais mean, and where does it come from?
- ethnic name for a man from Malta, from maltais ‘Maltese’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Maltais?
- A machine transcription gives /məɫˈteɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Maltais have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 429 people named Maltais, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maltais.
- Where is Maltais most common?
- Maltais is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 775 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Maltais?
- In the United States, the national register counted 429 people named Maltais in 2010, about 1 in 775 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maltaisThe 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, “Maltais”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.