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Malina

#2,167 in 2025Girls' name

Raspberry

Malina has been given to 4,452 babies in the U.S. since 1920. In 2025 it ranked #2,167 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 169 recorded.

Babies named Malina, 2025

1 in 38,500

Malina 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Malina: meaning, origin, and history

Raspberry

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Malina means

Malina means “raspberry”, associated with malina.

Origin, language, and formation

Malina is used in Polish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Malina is pronounced /maˈli.na/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,452 girls were recorded with the name Malina between 1920 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 169 in 2009; its best national rank was #1,400 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,954 in 2020 to #2,167 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,543 in 2015 to #2,167 in 2025.

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 Malina?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 38,500
86 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 18,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,167
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
26,721 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Malina 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 26,721 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Malina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Malinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Malina was born before 2007 — so the typical Malina is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
67.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,446
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Choose a decade

2010s — 30.3% of all recorded uses (1,349).

Is Malina 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
+44
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−213
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−624
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.60×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.9%
Peak was 2009 (169)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,400
2009

Spellings of Malina

Malina is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 27.6% against Malina's 0.22%.

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 Malina is used

Across 2016–2025, Malina was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 5,000 girls, against 1 in 17,748 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).

120 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 5,000
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 9,091
  3. 3California1 in 12,500
  4. 4New York1 in 12,500
  5. 5Washington1 in 14,286
  6. 6Florida1 in 16,667
  7. 7Illinois1 in 16,667
  8. 8Indiana1 in 16,667

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.

Malina around the world

Where Malina 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.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • France
    1985–2025
    #6,722
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #1,469
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1966–1995
    #712
    in 1995

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Malina

People whose public names include Malina, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Malina in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Malina. Linked forms have their own page here.

MaliaMalinMalenaMarinaMelinaMalindaMalvinaMarlinaMalinalliMarinetteMalinee

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Malina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,167
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 213
Best rank ever
#1,400
2009
Peak year
2009
169 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,452
Count in 2025
86

Names similar to Malina

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

MalainaMalvinaMalenaMalikaMaliahMallieMalaniMaliyaMalayaMaleahMalayahMalorieMalakMalkaMalihaMaloryMalkyMalaikaKalinaMalanaMaleaMaleiaAlbinaMalissa

Names with a curve like Malina

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Malina, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KerenSamiaRaniaAnnelieseEllyJaelJoleeTalyaRianTaliahAnneliseAni

Sibling names for Malina

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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