Given name & surname · also Czech
Malec
Malec is a surname from Czech, ultimately from Slovak. It is used in English, Polish, Czech, and Slovak.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Malec comes from Czech, and ultimately from Slovak.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1996. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Malec through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 21
- 21 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1996
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 1996. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,740 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Malec’s family of names
In Old Czech usage, Malec has a diminutive in Malček. In English usage, Malec as a surname has a related form in Malets. In English usage, Malec as a surname has a related form in MALETZ.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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