Meaning not yet researched.
Malina: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 86 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,400 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,400 in 2009; #2,167 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Malina in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,167 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #1,400.
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Malina: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 86 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,400 in 2009 · most girls in one year: 169 (2009).
In 2025, 86 US girls were named Malina, making it the 2,167th most common girls’ name of the year, up 44 places from #2,211 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 86 girls named Malina in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,400, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 169. For comparison, it was #1,543 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Malina in 71 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1920 with 6 babies. In all, 4,452 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,349 babies named Malina.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,057 US girls were named Malina; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 141. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,689 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Malina ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #947 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Malia (31,606 babies since 1880), Malinda (21,464 babies since 1880), Melina (19,926 babies since 1880) and Malena (4,058 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Malana, Maleena and Malaina are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Hungarian and Polish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Malana (1,210), Maleena (915), Malaina (890), Malyna (106), Maleyna (40), Maliana (38), Maelena (38), Maline (34), Maylana (29), Maylena (28), Malinalli (25), Malanna (25), and more.
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 Malina 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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 5 | #947 | #684 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,508 | #1,770 |
| California | 10 | #2,035 | #1,631 |
| New York | 5 | #2,286 | #2,142 |
| Texas | 8 | #2,554 | #2,148 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 86 | #2,167 | — | — |
| 2024 | 86 | #2,211 | — | — |
| 2023 | 88 | #2,168 | — | — |
| 2022 | 91 | #2,116 | — | — |
| 2021 | 107 | #1,869 | — | — |
| 2020 | 98 | #1,954 | — | — |
| 2019 | 96 | #2,006 | — | — |
| 2018 | 129 | #1,644 | — | — |
| 2017 | 135 | #1,611 | — | — |
| 2016 | 141 | #1,576 | — | — |
| 2015 | 144 | #1,543 | — | — |
| 2014 | 135 | #1,599 | — | — |
| 2013 | 150 | #1,484 | — | — |
| 2012 | 146 | #1,521 | — | — |
| 2011 | 121 | #1,717 | — | — |
| 2010 | 152 | #1,486 | — | — |
| 2009 | 169 | #1,400 | — | — |
| 2008 | 141 | #1,614 | — | — |
| 2007 | 122 | #1,764 | — | — |
| 2006 | 138 | #1,571 | — | — |
| 2005 | 113 | #1,753 | — | — |
| 2004 | 124 | #1,588 | — | — |
| 2003 | 96 | #1,908 | — | — |
| 2002 | 96 | #1,860 | — | — |
| 2001 | 108 | #1,679 | — | — |
| 2000 | 100 | #1,753 | — | — |
| 1999 | 85 | #1,867 | — | — |
| 1998 | 70 | #2,096 | — | — |
| 1997 | 49 | #2,611 | — | — |
| 1996 | 62 | #2,199 | — | — |
| 1995 | 61 | #2,205 | — | — |
| 1994 | 55 | #2,369 | — | — |
| 1993 | 68 | #2,041 | — | — |
| 1992 | 49 | #2,560 | — | — |
| 1991 | 47 | #2,608 | — | — |
| 1990 | 39 | #2,934 | — | — |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,227 | — | — |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,975 | — | — |
| 1987 | 33 | #2,949 | — | — |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,420 | — | — |
| 1985 | 35 | #2,735 | — | — |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,759 | — | — |
| 1983 | 38 | #2,460 | — | — |
| 1982 | 31 | #2,931 | — | — |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,201 | — | — |
| 1980 | 29 | #3,041 | — | — |
| 1979 | 39 | #2,416 | — | — |
| 1978 | 37 | #2,410 | — | — |
| 1977 | 43 | #2,179 | — | — |
| 1976 | 39 | #2,195 | — | — |
| 1975 | 34 | #2,389 | — | — |
| 1974 | 24 | #2,967 | — | — |
| 1973 | 40 | #2,044 | — | — |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,237 | — | — |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,116 | — | — |
| 1970 | 27 | #2,675 | — | — |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,405 | — | — |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,661 | — | — |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,605 | — | — |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,263 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,138 | — | — |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,807 | — | — |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,169 | — | — |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,287 | — | — |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,647 | — | — |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,976 | — | — |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,679 | — | — |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,016 | — | — |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,270 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,199 | — | — |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,734 | — | — |
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).