Malone
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Irish Gaelic Ó Maoil Eoin, ‘descendant of the follower of (St) John’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məloʊn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Malone is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- IEIreland≈1 in 2.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 4.7K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 5.1K
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 Malone 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 509 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈220,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
from Irish Gaelic Ó Maoil Eoin, ‘descendant of the follower of (St) John’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Malone, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Malone 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈220,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Malone | 18 |
| US United States | #399 | 71,286 | 1 in 4.7K | 71K | Malone | 509 |
| GB United Kingdom | #525 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | listed | Malone | 220 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Malone | 8 |
| CA Canada | #562 | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | 1 | Malone | 169 |
| IE Ireland | #152 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | listed | Malone | 128 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 160as Maloney | 1 in 634 | 160 | — | 1 |
| IS Iceland | #626 | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | listed | Malone | 6 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 44as Maloney | 1 in 1.2K | 44 | — | 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; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; the irish-family-names-grehan-1993 register; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)
Malone is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, O Maoileoin, 'one who served St John'; early sept in Offaly, with territory at Ballynahown and links to Connacht
as a nameIrish family names
In French, Surname used as a given name; from Irish Ó Maoil Eoin, 'descendant of the devotee of John'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In Irish, Irish surname meaning ‘servant of St John’; sometimes confused with Muldoon.
as a nameIrish first names
In English, Irish Ó Maoileoin, "descendant of Maoleoin" (servant of St John)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
An Irish surname meaning ‘servant of St John’, which at times may have become confused with Muldoon, ‘servant of the fort’. Edward Malone (1741-1812) was a famous Irish Shakespearean scholar. Loughead notes its use as a first name.
as a nameIrish first names
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)
- Dorothy Maloneb. 1924USAmerican actress (1924-2018)
- Brendan Maloneb. 1942USAmerican basketball coach (1942–2023)
- Tom Maloneb. 1947USAmerican musician
- William Maloneb. 1953USAmerican horror filmmaker
- Moses Maloneb. 1955USAmerican basketball player (1955–2015)
- Roberto Maloneb. 1956ITItalian pornographic film actor
- Jeff Maloneb. 1961USAmerican basketball player-coach
- Karl Maloneb. 1963USAmerican basketball player (born 1963)
- Mike Maloneb. 1971USAmerican basketball coach
- Jena Maloneb. 1984USAmerican actress
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 51 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 71K | #465 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 69K | #426 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 67K | #489 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 3 | #179 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| IE Ireland | Irish Family Names (Grehan, 1993) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Malone mean, and where does it come from?
- from Irish Gaelic Ó Maoil Eoin, ‘descendant of the follower of (St) John’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Malone?
- A machine transcription gives /məloʊn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Malone have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 216 thousand people named Malone in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled malone.
- How common is the name Malone?
- In the United States, the national register counted 71,286 people named Malone in 2010, about 1 in 4.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Malone compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Malone is the 152nd most common surname of 73,729 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Malone?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maloneThe 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, “Malone” — the 152nd most common surname in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.