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Malou

About 7 American babies have been named Malou since 2024, most of them around 2024. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 7 Malous are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 1.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 3 5 8 10 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Malou

By the numbers

Total US births
7
Estimated living today
7
Median age today
1
Peak year
2024
Best rank
12,161st
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
2024

Notable Malous

People named Malou with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Names of 2024

The most popular girls’ names the year Malou peaked:

All the names of 2024

Malou elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Denmark girls Malou 1,828 30th
France girls Malou 1,490 629th
Switzerland girls Malou 697 98th
Belgium girls Malou 311 457th
France boys Malou 155 3,255th
England and Wales girls Malou 6 5,876th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Malou: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German girls Switzerland Malou 636 0.051% 72nd
French girls Switzerland Malou 59 0.014% 290th
Romansh girls Switzerland Malou 2 0.054% 10th

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Malou is most concentrated in Bern, where 0.08% of children were given it – 161 of them.

Malou: rank by region

In 2025, Malou was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Malou 656 7

In 2022, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Malou appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (245th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Malou by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin girls 2017–2023 140 113th

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Malou among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
the Netherlands girls Malou 1,568 2,007
Finland girls Malou 44 68
the Netherlands boys Malou 5

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.