Malou

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Malou is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name19K records spelled Malou23 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Philippines, United States, Netherlands

  Languages: French, Arabic, Chinese

  Also written Maloù, Māloū, Ma-Lou, Màlou, Maloû

48 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Malou is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Swedish, Malou är en sammanslagning av delar av namnen → Marie och → Louise, tidigare oftast använd som smekform till dubbelnamnet Marie-Louise. En känd namnbärare är journalisten Malou (egentligen Marie-Louise) von Sivers (f. 1953).

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In Slovak, feminine instrumental singular of malý

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In enm, alternative form of malwe

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

BE Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) — 28 years between 1995–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Malou Airaudob. 1948FRFrench professor and music educator
• Malou von Siversb. 1953SESwedish TV host and journalist
• Malou de Guzmanb. 1958PHFilipino actress
• Malou Aamundb. 1969DKFolketinget member
• Malou Hanssonb. 1983SESwedish actor-model
• Maloub. 1984DKDanish former softcore porn actress
• Malou Reymannb. 1988NLDanish actress
• Malou Pheninckxb. 1991NLDutch field hockey player (1991-)
• Malou Ejdesgaardb. 1991DKDanish tennis player
• Merle Fräbelb. 2003DEnot in their usual nameGerman Luger

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 179 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Malou?

We estimate roughly 9.0 thousand people bear Malou (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Malou have the most bearers?

We estimate about 3.7 thousand people bear Malou in Denmark, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled malou.

Where is Malou most common?

Malou is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.6 thousand people carrying it.

How common is Malou compared with other names?

In Denmark, Malou is the 325th most common given name of 31,396 given names recorded there.

Is Malou a male or female name?

Malou is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Malou mean?

Recorded meaning: a diminutive of the female given name Marie-Louise