Malu is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Malu in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Malu in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Malu by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Malu ranks at #6,906. That means there are 6,905 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Malu.
Meeting a woman or girl named Malu is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Malu can be found in only two: Florida and Massachusetts. No other state currently has residents named Malu. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Malu living in one state or another (if your name is Malu and you live outside of Florida or Massachusetts, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Malu is in Florida, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Florida, only 0.00024% of all female residents are named Malu – that’s just one in 409,186! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 17 women with that name. So, if your name is Malu, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With four letters, the name Malu is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Malu and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Malu, you can simply say:
Mouse
Apple
Lion
Unicorn
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Malu
Malu
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
A
L
U
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
M
A
L
U
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Malu sounds like this:
