How common is the surname Maleski?

902 people in the United States had the surname Maleski in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 342,290 Americans. It ranked 26,910th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Maleski?

In the 2010 Census, 99% of people named Maleski identified as white (not Hispanic), and 0.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Maleski?

Vlado Maleski, Ambassador and member of the Presidency of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia (1919–1984).

Where is the surname Maleski most common?

Wikidata records people named Maleski in Yugoslavia.

Is the surname Maleski getting more or less common?

More common. 899 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 902 in 2010, up 0.3%.

The surname Maleski

A Polish place surname, carried by 902 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex M420

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Maleski is more common than 83.4% of them.

Origin

Polish origin

Borrowed from Polish Maleski and Macedonian Малески (Maleski), from the village Malesze in Poland; also a spelling variant of Malewski, itself from Malewo, named after several villages in Poland.

Maleski is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 304 Polish surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 902 people named Maleski in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 342,290 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 899.

#26,910

rank among US surnames

902

people in 2010

0.3

per 100,000 Americans

+0.3%

change since 2000 (was #25,735)

Who is named Maleski

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

99% of people named Maleski identified as white (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 99%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.7%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Maleskis

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Vlado Maleski
Ambassador and member of the Presidency of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia (1919–1984)

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Maleski

Maleski has the Soundex code M420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M420.

Other Polish surnames

All 304 Polish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Maleski come from?: Borrowed from Polish Maleski and Macedonian Малески (Maleski), from the village Malesze in Poland; also a spelling variant of Malewski, itself from Malewo, named after several villages in Poland.
How common is the surname Maleski?: 902 people in the United States had the surname Maleski in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 342,290 Americans. It ranked 26,910th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Maleski?: In the 2010 Census, 99% of people named Maleski identified as white (not Hispanic), and 0.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Maleski?: Vlado Maleski, Ambassador and member of the Presidency of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia (1919–1984).
Where is the surname Maleski most common?: Wikidata records people named Maleski in Yugoslavia.
What type of surname is Maleski?: Maleski is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Maleski getting more or less common?: More common. 899 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 902 in 2010, up 0.3%.