Malina
Malina was given to 86 girls in 2025, #2,167 among girls’ names; 4,452 Americans have been recorded with it since 1920 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,370 Americans named Malina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Malina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Malina mean?
Wiktionary, Polish section
Malina is “a female given name” Its etymology gives the sense “raspberry” (malina).
From malina (“raspberry”).
/maˈli.na/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Polish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Malina?
#2,167 among girls’ names, 2025
Malina fell from #1,543 in 2015 to #2,167 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 80.7 to 53.5 per million.
169 babies in 2009, the peak
Malina peaked in 2009, when 169 girls were given it, #1,400 among girls’ names. The 86 births of 2025 are 51% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 86 | #2,167 | 53.5 |
| 2024 | 86 | #2,211 | 53.1 |
| 2023 | 88 | #2,168 | 54.8 |
| 2022 | 91 | #2,116 | 55.5 |
| 2021 | 107 | #1,869 | 65.2 |
| 2020 | 98 | #1,954 | 60.6 |
| 2019 | 96 | #2,006 | 57.2 |
| 2018 | 129 | #1,644 | 75.8 |
| 2017 | 135 | #1,611 | 78.2 |
| 2016 | 141 | #1,576 | 79.6 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 144 | #1,543 | 80.7 |
| 2014 | 135 | #1,599 | 75.6 |
| 2013 | 150 | #1,484 | 85.5 |
| 2012 | 146 | #1,521 | 82.9 |
| 2011 | 121 | #1,717 | 68.8 |
| 2010 | 152 | #1,486 | 85.5 |
| 2009 | 169 | #1,400 | 92.0 |
| 2008 | 141 | #1,614 | 74.6 |
| 2007 | 122 | #1,764 | 63.5 |
| 2006 | 138 | #1,571 | 72.6 |
| 2005 | 113 | #1,752 | 61.2 |
| 2004 | 124 | #1,587 | 67.5 |
| 2003 | 96 | #1,907 | 52.5 |
| 2002 | 96 | #1,858 | 53.4 |
| 2001 | 108 | #1,677 | 60.0 |
| 2000 | 100 | #1,749 | 55.1 |
| 1999 | 85 | #1,864 | 47.9 |
| 1998 | 70 | #2,093 | 39.6 |
| 1997 | 49 | #2,608 | 28.1 |
| 1996 | 62 | #2,196 | 35.4 |
| 1995 | 61 | #2,200 | 34.7 |
| 1994 | 55 | #2,364 | 30.8 |
| 1993 | 68 | #2,036 | 37.6 |
| 1992 | 49 | #2,555 | 26.6 |
| 1991 | 47 | #2,602 | 25.1 |
| 1990 | 39 | #2,929 | 20.5 |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,221 | 17.9 |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,970 | 12.9 |
| 1987 | 33 | #2,947 | 19.0 |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,418 | 15.2 |
| 1985 | 35 | #2,734 | 20.3 |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,758 | 19.6 |
| 1983 | 38 | #2,459 | 22.7 |
| 1982 | 31 | #2,930 | 18.3 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,201 | 16.2 |
| 1980 | 29 | #3,041 | 17.5 |
| 1979 | 39 | #2,416 | 24.3 |
| 1978 | 37 | #2,410 | 24.2 |
| 1977 | 43 | #2,179 | 28.0 |
| 1976 | 39 | #2,195 | 26.6 |
| 1975 | 34 | #2,389 | 23.3 |
| 1974 | 24 | #2,967 | 16.4 |
| 1973 | 40 | #2,044 | 27.4 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,237 | 13.1 |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,116 | 13.2 |
| 1970 | 27 | #2,675 | 15.4 |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,404 | 10.1 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,660 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,605 | 13.9 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,262 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,137 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,806 | 3.7 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,168 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,286 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,646 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,975 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,677 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,015 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,268 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,197 | 2.7 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,732 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Malina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Malina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 71 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Malina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Malina, and how old are they?
4,370 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,452 Americans ever recorded as Malina. The median Malina alive today is 18 years old; half are between 11 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 3,733 people named Malina (3,724 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,856 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 45 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 389 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 643 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,810 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,480 |
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).
Where are babies named Malina born?
The states with the most babies named Malina are California, Florida and Texas, with 73% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 10 | #2,035 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,508 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 8 | #2,554 | 0.5× |
| New York | 5 | #2,286 | 0.6× |
| Maryland | 5 | #947 | 0.3× |
Where Malina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Malina is most over-represented in California: since 1920 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Malina with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 20,997 babies since 1880, Malina is the second most given (21% of them). In 2025 it was given to 86 of their 1,121 babies (7.7%), again the second most given.
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 Malina
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 Malina and names like it
- Compare Malina and MalaniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMalina peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Malina since 1910.
- Polish namesWiktionary’s origin for Malina: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Malina.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Malina alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.