Malà
surname · Latin script
Malà is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: habitational name from Maid de Montcal, a village in Girona, or any of several other places named with Maid, which is of pre-Roman origin.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 20K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 4.3Kas Melo
- INIndia1 in 6.1Kas Mal
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Malà itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #849 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 309 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
1,522,803 named Melo
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mala in BR Brazil, NP Nepal, NG Nigeria, Mola in AR Argentina, UY Uruguay and Mali in IN India.
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)
habitational name from Maid de Montcal, a village in Girona, or any of several other places named with Maid, which is of pre-Roman origin.
Sources 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
- Nordic Names
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Malà 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 1,522,803as Melo | 1 in 139 | 1.5M | Mala | 31 |
| IN India | #141 | 218,731as Mal | 1 in 6.1K | 219K | Mali | 202 |
| NP Nepal | — | 19,605as Mali | 1 in 1.5K | 20K | Mala | 16 |
| AR Argentina | — | 10,683as Melo | 1 in 4.3K | 11K | Mola | 39 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 20K | listed | Mala | 30 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 6,842as Melo | 1 in 495 | 6.8K | Mola | 11 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 6,765 | 1 in 1.6K | 6.8K | — | 2 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 4,471as Melo | 1 in 3.8K | 4.5K | — | 12 |
1,522,803 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname), counting the spelling melo. 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); MVČR — living population register 2017; INEC — civil registry 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Malà mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from Maid de Montcal, a village in Girona, or any of several other places named with Maid, which is of pre-Roman origin. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Malà have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.5 million people named Melo, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Malà most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Malà is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 1.6 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Malà?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 6,765 people named Malà, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Malà compared with other names?
- In India, Malà is the 141st most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mal%C3%A0The 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, “Malà” — the 141st most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.