Name Awesome

Malvin

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Malvin has been given to 2,685 babies in the U.S. since 1886. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1921, with 68 recorded.

Babies named Malvin, 2023

1 in 552,000

Malvin over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Malvin: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Malvin means

Malvin is a given name.

The naming story behind Malvin

Wikidata records Malvin as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q1164381, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,673 boys were recorded with the name Malvin between 1886 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 68 in 1921; its best national rank was #742 in 1913.

In the United States, 12 girls were recorded with the name Malvin between 1922 and 1928. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1922; its best national rank was #4,522 in 1928.

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.

How common is Malvin?

Malvin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Malvin sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 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 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Malvin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Malvins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Malvin was born before 1940 — so the typical Malvin is around 85 today.

Median birth year
1940
About 85 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
20.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,024
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 20.5% of all recorded uses (547).

Is Malvin 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
—
Not ranked then
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
0%
Peak was 1921 (68)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#742
1913

Spellings of Malvin

Malvin is not the most common spelling — Martin is, with 19.2% against Malvin's 0.16%.

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 Malvin is used

Across 1910–2025, Malvin was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 168,159 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 16,667
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 50,000
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 100,000
  4. 4New York1 in 100,000
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  6. 6Alabama1 in —
  7. 7California1 in —
  8. 8Georgia1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Malvin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Malvin around the world

Where Malvin 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
    2005–2018
    #3,959
    in 2018
  • France
    1989–2021
    #6,927
    in 2021
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #221
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2017
    #2,308
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1957–1970
    #540
    in 1970

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, 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. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Malvin

People whose public names include Malvin, 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.

Malvin in other languages

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

MalMelvinMalvernMalvinaMalvineManciMalvynMalwin

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

Malvin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#742
1913
Peak year
1921
68 that year
First recorded
1886
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
2,673
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,522
1928
Peak year
1922
6 that year
First recorded
1922
Last recorded
1928
All-time count
12
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Malvin

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

MaleekMalakiMalcomMalikiMalakhiMalekMaliekMalikaiMaliqueMalickDarvinDalvinSelvinTrevinKervinMaloneDelvinMaliqMalachaiKavinJavinMalachyBrevinDonavin

Names with a curve like Malvin

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

RudolfLeamonBurnellAudreyWeltonArdellNorwoodOlanAcieJoyFarrisFurman

Sibling names for Malvin

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

Explore around Malvin

Top names of 1921, Malvin's peak yearThe 1920s in fullOther names that peaked in 1913Boys' names starting with M