The Malas surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 268 people carried this name — #72,568 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 1,111,100 people counted. That is down 5% from 282 in 2000.
In Poland’s population register
589 people named Malas have a registered home in Poland.
Of the 651 in Poland’s national register, these are the ones with a permanent address on file. They live in 13 of Poland’s 16 voivodeships, most of all in Greater Poland.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
PESEL register, Ministry of Digital Affairs of Poland (dane.gov.pl) — CC0 · living people by voivodeship of permanent residence, 20 January 2026.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 79 people named Malas.
9 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 13 départements, most often Calvados.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
41 people named Malas is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Malas,
with a public archive behind them.
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Spiro Malas 1933–2019 · singer -
Mohammad Malas 1945– · screenwriter
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Sahar Malas 1958– · writer
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Stavros Malas 1967– · politician
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Malas.
- Malaguti 180 · U.S. census
- Malaise 136 · U.S. census
- Malan 2,007 · U.S. census
- Malara 426 · U.S. census
- Malaret 158 · U.S. census
- Malary 149 · U.S. census
- Malaspina 355 · U.S. census
- Malaterre 164 · U.S. census
- Malatesta 1,358 · U.S. census
- Malaty 109 · U.S. census
- Malcuit 237 · U.S. census
- Maldonado 121,526 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Malas is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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