Malin
Malin was given to 16 girls in 2025, #7,018 among girls’ names; 1,070 Americans have been recorded with it since 1935 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,050 Americans named Malin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 9 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Malin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Malin mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Malin is “a female given name”
Vernacular form of Magdalena. First recorded in Sweden in 1524.
/ˈmɑːˌlɪn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Malin?
#7,018 among girls’ names, 2025
Malin fell from #3,821 in 2015 to #7,018 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 22.4 to 10.0 per million.
78 babies in 2012, the peak
Malin peaked in 2012, when 78 babies were given it (66 girls, #2,700 among girls’ names). The 16 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,018 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,756 | 9 | #8,730 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,090 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,340 | 7 | #10,460 |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,789 | 10 | #7,936 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,115 | 9 | #8,486 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,923 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,898 | 13 | #6,563 |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,813 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 48 | #3,364 | 5 | #13,469 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #3,821 | 7 | #10,224 |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,822 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 53 | #3,108 | 8 | #9,346 |
| 2012 | 66 | #2,700 | 12 | #6,877 |
| 2011 | 61 | #2,858 | 6 | #11,739 |
| 2010 | 38 | #4,004 | 8 | #9,348 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,438 | 8 | #9,553 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,679 | 7 | #10,603 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,236 | 10 | #7,959 |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,041 | 11 | #7,245 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,434 | 8 | #8,797 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,540 | 9 | #7,944 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,302 | 9 | #7,609 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,752 | 9 | #7,421 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,845 | 9 | #7,282 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,610 | 9 | #7,187 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,913 | 5 | #10,959 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,733 | 6 | #9,198 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 5 | #10,207 | |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,909 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,230 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,287 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,844 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,611 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,464 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 5 | #8,975 | |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,385 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,914 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,097 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,454 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 5 | #5,980 | |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,621 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 5 | #4,782 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 6 | #3,349 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 5 | #3,842 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 5 | #3,963 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Malin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,070 Americans recorded as Malin, 79% are girls and 21% boys. In 2025 it went to 16 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Malin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Malin, and how old are they?
1,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,070 Americans ever recorded as Malin. The median Malin alive today is 14 years old; half are between 9 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 1,331 people named Malin (1,037 women and girls, 294 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 891 born in the U.S. The Census count is 49% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Malin rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 14 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 71 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 483 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 475 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 9,833 babies since 1880, Malin is the third most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 413 babies (3.9%), the sixth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Malin
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Malin and names like it
- Compare Malin and MaylinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMalin peaked in 2012.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Malin since 1910.
- Swedish namesWiktionary’s origin for Malin: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Malin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Malin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.