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Malenia

#6,467 in 2025Girls' name

English equivalent of Melanie

Malenia has been given to 61 babies in the U.S. since 2022. In 2025 it ranked #6,467 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Malenia, 2025

1 in 184,000

Malenia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Malenia: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Melanie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Malenia means

Malenia is a English equivalent of Melanie.

Origin, language, and formation

Malenia is used in Ingrian.

Malenia comes through Russian Маления.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Melanie.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Ingrian, Malenia is pronounced /ˈmɑleniɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 61 girls were recorded with the name Malenia between 2022 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2024; its best national rank was #5,724 in 2024.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Malenia?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 89,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,467
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Malenia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Malenia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Malenias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Malenia was born before 2024 — so the typical Malenia is around 1 today.

Median birth year
2024
About 1 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
61
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (61).

Is Malenia rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−743
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
81.8%
Peak was 2024 (22)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
77.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,724
2024

Spellings of Malenia

Malenia is not the most common spelling — Valeria is, with 23.2% against Malenia's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Malenia is used

Across 1910–2025, Malenia was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,668,796 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Malenia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Malenia around the world

Where Malenia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    2024–2024
    #6,522
    in 2024

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Malenia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,467
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#5,724
2024
Peak year
2024
22 that year
First recorded
2022
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
61
Count in 2025
18

Names similar to Malenia

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

MalaniaMalveniaMalauniMalianaMalanniMalonieMalaynahMaluhiaMalilahMalkieMaloniiMalonnieMalaniiMaliakaMalonniMalaiahMalakaiMalahniMaleiniMalvikaMaleekaMaleighMaleshaMalessa

Sibling names for Malenia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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