as a Last Name
- 86,208
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Maldonado
Meaning & Origins
Spanish and Portuguese: 1. nickname for an ugly or stupid person, from Spanish mal donado ‘ill-favored’. The phrase is a compound of mal ‘badly’ + donado ‘given’, ‘endowed’, past participle of donare ‘to give’, ‘to bestow’. 2. habitational name from Maldonado, a village in the province of Albacete.
| 363rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 86,208
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Puerto Rico
- has the most people named Maldonado per capita
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