Maliniak
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Maliniak is a surname, most frequently recorded in the United States. It appears chiefly in English and Polish, written in the Latin script.
- USUnited States1 in 2M◐
- PLPoland1 in 310K
- CZCzechia1 in 1.3M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
| Country | Share of this name | |
|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,315 | 59% |
| PL Poland | 509 | 23% |
| GB United Kingdom | 72 | 3% |
| CZ Czechia | 41 | 2% |
| FR France | 39 | 2% |
≈1,976 recorded bearers across the countries shown (a sample of the full distribution).
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English1.5K65%
- Polish54024%
- Spanish492%
- French472%
- Czech412%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 1,454 | 65% |
| Polish | 540 | 24% |
| Spanish | 49 | 2% |
| French | 47 | 2% |
| Czech | 41 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Władysław Maliniakb. 1885PLPolish legal scholar
- Julian Maliniakb. 1889PLliterary translator and Polish Socialist Party activist
- Guta Maliniakb. 1932NLHolocaust victim (born 1932)
- Schalom Maliniakb. 1935NLHolocaust victim (born 1935)
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●
Attested in 9 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 183 | #93,006 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 169 | #105,600 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 162 | #114,613 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 81 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 81 | #35,433 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 78 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 78 | #35,960 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 13 | #69,981 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #174,296 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-03 data build · 10 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Maliniak?
- Our records include 1,976 bearers of Maliniak across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Maliniak have the most bearers?
- Maliniak is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Maliniak”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.