In the Beginning
Internal Migration
The Surname Today
forebears.io estimates that, in 2025, Malta had 2111 people with the surname Baldacchino, with another 18 reported as Baldachino. Those with the spelling Baldachino are undoubtedly misspellings. We believe that this is a good estimate since we know from the 2022 Malta Electoral Rolls, available from the National Library and available online to those with Maltese identification cards, that there were 1675 registered Baldacchino voters with at least another 90 having Baldacchino as part of a double surname such Baldacchino Kerr or Gatt Baldacchino. Voting participation is very high in Malta and open to those 16 and over, so these numbers should be a fair reflection of the adult population in 2022.
Maltese surnames are very dense with approximately 75% of the population holding the top 100 surnames, and Baldacchino ranked 50th amongst Maltese surnames in 2025 according to Government statistics available at surnam.es/malta. Qormi, just outside the urban sprawl of Valletta, is by far the preferred location for Baldacchino families and most families remain in the southern towns of the island, close to where the original Maltese Baldacchinos settled. A small number of Baldacchinos now live on the island of Gozo but historically the name is generally only found on the larger island of Malta.
