Meaning not yet researched.
Malin: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,700 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,700 in 2012; #7,020 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Malin in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,020 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #2,700.
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Malin: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,700 in 2012 · most girls in one year: 66 (2012).
In 2025, 16 US girls were named Malin, making it the 7,020th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,741 places from #8,761 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 12 girls named Malin in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,700, reached in 2012. That year also had the most girls given the name: 66. For comparison, it was #3,822 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Malin in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #3,350, reached in 1939. The most boys given the name in a single year was 13, in 2018. For comparison, it was #10,230 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Malin in 46 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1935 with 5 babies. In all, 1,070 US babies have been given the name, 79% of them girls and 21% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 500 babies named Malin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 277 US girls were named Malin; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 48. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,454 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Malina (4,452 babies since 1880), Mahlon (5,683 babies since 1880), Maylin (3,133 babies since 1880) and Maelyn (2,490 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Malaun, Malaine and Malahn are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Malaun (32), Malaine (5), Malahn (5).
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 Malin in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,020 | — | — |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,761 | 9 | #8,735 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,095 | — | — |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,342 | 7 | #10,466 |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,793 | 10 | #7,941 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,118 | 9 | #8,491 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,927 | — | — |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,899 | 13 | #6,567 |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,814 | — | — |
| 2016 | 48 | #3,364 | 5 | #13,475 |
| 2015 | 40 | #3,822 | 7 | #10,230 |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,824 | — | — |
| 2013 | 53 | #3,109 | 8 | #9,351 |
| 2012 | 66 | #2,700 | 12 | #6,883 |
| 2011 | 61 | #2,859 | 6 | #11,746 |
| 2010 | 38 | #4,005 | 8 | #9,355 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,439 | 8 | #9,558 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,682 | 7 | #10,610 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,240 | 10 | #7,963 |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,043 | 11 | #7,250 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,439 | 8 | #8,804 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,545 | 9 | #7,950 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,307 | 9 | #7,616 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,758 | 9 | #7,428 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,850 | 9 | #7,289 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,618 | 9 | #7,195 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,922 | 5 | #10,967 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,740 | 6 | #9,206 |
| 1997 | — | — | 5 | #10,213 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,914 | — | — |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,235 | — | — |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,293 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,850 | — | — |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,619 | — | — |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,471 | — | — |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #8,984 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,391 | — | — |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,919 | — | — |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,102 | — | — |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,459 | — | — |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #5,982 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,623 | — | — |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #4,784 |
| 1939 | — | — | 6 | #3,350 |
| 1938 | — | — | 5 | #3,843 |
| 1935 | — | — | 5 | #3,965 |
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).