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Malvina

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Malvina has been given to 1,686 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1917, with 63 recorded.

Babies named Malvina, 2022

1 in 564,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Malvina: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Malvina means

Malvina is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Malvina is used in Albanian, Faroese, Italian and Walloon.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Walloon, Malvina is pronounced /mal.vi.ˈna/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,686 girls were recorded with the name Malvina between 1880 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 63 in 1917; its best national rank was #475 in 1883.

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 Malvina?

Malvina had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 564,000
6 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 273,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,139 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Malvina 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 2022 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 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Malvina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Malvinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Malvina was born before 1919 — so the typical Malvina is around 106 today.

Median birth year
1919
About 106 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
22.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
227
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1910s — 22.2% of all recorded uses (375).

Is Malvina 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1917 (63)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#475
1883

Spellings of Malvina

Malvina is not the most common spelling — Alaina is, with 15.1% against Malvina's 0.50%.

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 Malvina is used

Across 1910–2025, Malvina was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 151,881 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 100,000
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Ohio1 in —
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 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. Malvina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Malvina around the world

Where Malvina 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
    2008–2022
    #4,646
    in 2022
  • France
    1900–2025
    #3,776
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Malvina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#475
1883
Peak year
1917
63 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
1,686
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Malvina

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

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Sibling names for Malvina

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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