How common is the surname Maltese?

1,887 people in the United States had the surname Maltese in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 163,617 Americans. It ranked 15,508th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Maltese?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Maltese identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Maltese getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,897 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,887 in 2010, down 0.5%.

The surname Maltese

A surname, carried by 1,887 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex M432

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Maltese is more common than 90.4% of them.

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,887 people named Maltese in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 163,617 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,897.

#15,508

rank among US surnames

1,887

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

-0.5%

change since 2000 (was #14,438)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#15,499	Emert	1,889	163,444
#15,503	Shand	1,888	163,530
#15,508	Lucht	1,887	163,617

Who is named Maltese

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

95% of people named Maltese identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.0%
Two or more races 0.3%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Maltese

Maltese has the Soundex code M432, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M432.

Questions

How common is the surname Maltese?: 1,887 people in the United States had the surname Maltese in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 163,617 Americans. It ranked 15,508th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Maltese?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Maltese identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Maltese getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,897 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,887 in 2010, down 0.5%.