Malus

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: The loss or return of performance-related compensation originally paid by an employer to an employee as a result of the discovery of a defect in the performance

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/meɪləs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Malus is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia1 in 14K(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia1 in 65K
  • PLPoland1 in 189K

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.

Poland (measured from records)

203 people, 2026

Sources
19 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Malùš in CZ Czechia.

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)

The loss or return of performance-related compensation originally paid by an employer to an employee as a result of the discovery of a defect in the performance.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

How Malus is read(measured from records)

Malus is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English44%

    The loss or return of performance-related compensation originally paid by an employer to an employee as a result of the discovery of a defect in the performance.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Croatian13%

    francuski fizičar, otkrio polarizaciju svjetlosti

    as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export

  • French13%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Malus in French.

  • Spanish6.5%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Malus in Spanish.

  • Polish5.9%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Malus in Polish.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Malus 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.

Where Malus is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland2031 in 189K104Malus19
SI Slovenia1531 in 14K153—1
HR Croatia651 in 65K65——
CZ Czechia531 in 202K53Malùš12
AR Argentina211 in 2.2M21——

203 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Malus is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Slovenia

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian

    Also written Малуш, Maluš

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Malůš

30 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Malus is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latin, unpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In pqm, hop hornbeam, ironwood, Ostrya virginiana

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Breton, qui se moud

    as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

  • In Latvian, Ābeles

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

1700180019002000Antoine Malus de Montarcy, b. 1736Etienne-Louis Malus, b. 1775Meta Malus, b. 1952Chantal Marie Malus, b. 1958Breda Malus, b. 1963Jérôme Malus, b. 1974Jaka Malus, b. 1996

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)

FormalDear Malus,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 16 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Malus
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—153#2,909
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026104—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—104#28,620
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202699—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—99#30,214
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202165#11,019
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202162—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—21—

Reference works 4

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 Malus mean, and where does it come from?
The loss or return of performance-related compensation originally paid by an employer to an employee as a result of the discovery of a defect in the performance. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Malus?
A machine transcription gives /meɪləs/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Malus have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 203 people named Malus, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled malus.
Where is Malus most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Malus is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 14 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Malus?
In Poland, the national register counted 203 people named Malus in 2026, about 1 in 189 thousand residents.

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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, “Malus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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