Malin — #8533 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Malin

The Social Security Administration has registered 824 babies named Malin between 1974 and 2024, spanning 51 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Malin currently holds the #8533 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 66 babies received it in a single year. Malin is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 230 additional births since 1935.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Malin performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 441 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Malin shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 38 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Minnesota and Arizona. In total, SSA state-level files list Malin in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Malin in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 824 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.