The MALONE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	69,257	426	0.026	257
United States (1880 census)	15,898	358	0.032	318
Change since 1880	+53359	-68	-0.006	-61
Other Countries
Australia	2,442	660	0.015	149
United Kingdom	6,451	983	0.014	140

Top States for MALONE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	6,633	383	0.032	318
Tennessee	4,855	149	0.085	853
California	4,387	751	0.013	130
Ohio	3,839	303	0.034	338
Alabama	3,397	185	0.076	764
Top States for MALONE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Tennessee	4,855	149	0.085	853
Mississippi	2,197	181	0.077	772
Alabama	3,397	185	0.076	764
Arkansas	1,095	306	0.041	410
Louisiana	1,655	375	0.037	370

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of MALONE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MALONE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the MALONE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of MALONE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	443	0.64
Asian/Pacific	298	0.43
White (Caucasian)	48,341	69.8
Black/African American	18,014	26.01
Mixed Race	1,094	1.58
White (Hispanic)	1,067	1.54

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

Meaning of MALONE in historical publications

One of the descendants of the house of O'Connor, Kings of Connaught, being tonsured in honor of St. John, was called Maol Eoin--Bald John, from Maol, bald or tonsured, and Eoin, John, and this was corrupted into Malone.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

MALONE. One of the descendants of the house of O'Connor, Kings of Conuaught, having received tlie tonstu-e in honour of Saint .John, was called Manl Eoin, " sacred or dedicated to John," which was afterwards corrupted to Malone.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

Similar names to MALONE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MALONE.

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.