Meaning not yet researched.
Malena: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 81 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,056 in 1886.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,056 in 1886; #2,271 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Malena in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,271 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1886, at #1,056.
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Malena: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 81 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,056 in 1886 · most girls in one year: 146 (2004).
In 2025, 81 US girls were named Malena, making it the 2,271st most common girls’ name of the year, up 208 places from #2,479 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 73 girls named Malena in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,056, reached in 1886. The most girls given the name in a single year was 146, in 2004. For comparison, it was #1,992 in 2015 and #5,798 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Malena in 76 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1886 with 6 babies. In all, 4,058 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,234 babies named Malena.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 776 US girls were named Malena; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 89. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,843 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Malena ranked highest in Pennsylvania in 2025, at #980 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Magdalena (19,783 babies since 1880), Malina (4,452 babies since 1880), Madelaine (3,398 babies since 1880) and Malayna (1,392 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Icelandic. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Malena in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #980 | #1,191 |
| California | 11 | #1,904 | #1,998 |
| Texas | 11 | #1,996 | #2,774 |
| Florida | 6 | #2,055 | #1,437 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 81 | #2,271 | — | — |
| 2024 | 73 | #2,479 | — | — |
| 2023 | 70 | #2,547 | — | — |
| 2022 | 78 | #2,381 | — | — |
| 2021 | 75 | #2,407 | — | — |
| 2020 | 59 | #2,810 | — | — |
| 2019 | 88 | #2,137 | — | — |
| 2018 | 81 | #2,265 | — | — |
| 2017 | 89 | #2,154 | — | — |
| 2016 | 82 | #2,317 | — | — |
| 2015 | 100 | #1,992 | — | — |
| 2014 | 110 | #1,848 | — | — |
| 2013 | 95 | #2,046 | — | — |
| 2012 | 98 | #1,993 | — | — |
| 2011 | 115 | #1,777 | — | — |
| 2010 | 118 | #1,756 | — | — |
| 2009 | 123 | #1,773 | — | — |
| 2008 | 122 | #1,797 | — | — |
| 2007 | 138 | #1,618 | — | — |
| 2006 | 130 | #1,637 | — | — |
| 2005 | 117 | #1,700 | — | — |
| 2004 | 146 | #1,424 | — | — |
| 2003 | 107 | #1,768 | — | — |
| 2002 | 139 | #1,390 | — | — |
| 2001 | 119 | #1,569 | — | — |
| 2000 | 93 | #1,848 | — | — |
| 1999 | 73 | #2,109 | — | — |
| 1998 | 63 | #2,272 | — | — |
| 1997 | 58 | #2,320 | — | — |
| 1996 | 50 | #2,541 | — | — |
| 1995 | 45 | #2,711 | — | — |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,973 | — | — |
| 1993 | 41 | #2,919 | — | — |
| 1992 | 49 | #2,559 | — | — |
| 1991 | 42 | #2,818 | — | — |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,458 | — | — |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,849 | — | — |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,763 | — | — |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,403 | — | — |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,509 | — | — |
| 1985 | 31 | #2,981 | — | — |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,818 | — | — |
| 1983 | 40 | #2,381 | — | — |
| 1982 | 30 | #2,992 | — | — |
| 1981 | 36 | #2,592 | — | — |
| 1980 | 35 | #2,680 | — | — |
| 1979 | 35 | #2,605 | — | — |
| 1978 | 41 | #2,260 | — | — |
| 1977 | 38 | #2,360 | — | — |
| 1976 | 29 | #2,700 | — | — |
| 1975 | 42 | #2,085 | — | — |
| 1974 | 52 | #1,749 | — | — |
| 1973 | 43 | #1,929 | — | — |
| 1972 | 63 | #1,512 | — | — |
| 1971 | 66 | #1,522 | — | — |
| 1970 | 53 | #1,731 | — | — |
| 1969 | 24 | #2,743 | — | — |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,711 | — | — |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,159 | — | — |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,260 | — | — |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,112 | — | — |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,276 | — | — |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,661 | — | — |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,167 | — | — |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,419 | — | — |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,115 | — | — |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,481 | — | — |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,095 | — | — |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,507 | — | — |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,421 | — | — |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,897 | — | — |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,798 | — | — |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,606 | — | — |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,357 | — | — |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,825 | — | — |
| 1886 | 6 | #1,056 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).