Malone

66,928 people in the United States were counted with the surname Malone in the 2020 census, making it the 489th most common in the country. That is about one person in 4,466.

By the numbers

People: 66,928
Rank: 489th
How common: 1 in 4,466
Per 100,000: 22.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

From Irish Ó Maol Eoin.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Malone described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 64.7%
Black, not Hispanic 26.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Malone

Karl Malone (born 1963)American basketball player
Dorothy Malone (1924–2018)American actress
Moses Malone (1955–2015)American basketball player
Jena Malone (born 1984)American actress
Mike Malone (born 1971)American basketball coach
Dion Malone (born 1989)Surinamese footballer
Ryan Malone (born 1979)American ice hockey player
Edmond Malone (1741–1812)Irish Shakespearean scholar and editor

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

Surnames like Malone

Also a first name

Malone has been given to 727 American babies as a first name since 1914, peaking in 2024. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.