as a Last Name
- 757
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Malay
Meaning & Origins
French (Walloon): according to Debrabandere, a Walloon variant of Mala(he), a nickname for a difficult, clumsy or maladroit person, from French malaise ‘illness’, ‘sickness’; ‘awkward’, ‘clumsy’.
| 33,192nd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 757
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Malay per capita
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