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The MALEK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,459 6938 0.002 16
United States (1880 census) 46 51930 0 1
Change since 1880 +4413 +44992 +N/A +15
Other Countries
Australia 140 10489 0.001 9
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for MALEK by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 644 4222 0.002 19
New York 408 4380 0.002 22
Illinois 383 3119 0.003 31
Texas 381 5054 0.002 18
Michigan 326 3378 0.003 33
Top States for MALEK by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Montana 35 3460 0.004 39
Michigan 326 3378 0.003 33
Iowa 91 4377 0.003 31
Illinois 383 3119 0.003 31
Wisconsin 153 4845 0.003 29

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called MALEK live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called MALEK represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called MALEK in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a MALEK by picking someone at random in Montana than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of MALEK

Region of origin: Africa

Religious origin: Muslim

Ethnic distribution of MALEK in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 183 4.1
Asian/Pacific 175 3.92
White (Hispanic) 70 1.57
Black/African American 41 0.92
Native American/Alaskan 5 0.11
White (Caucasian) 3,985 89.37

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the MALEK surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of MALEK in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of MALEK.

Similar names to MALEK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MALEK.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for MALEK

The following words are slight variants of MALEK that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.