Malvina
Malvina was last recorded in 2022, when 6 babies were given it; 1,686 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Malvina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Malvina mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Malvina is “a female given name”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Malvina?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,663, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
63 babies in 1917, the peak
Malvina peaked in 1917, when 63 girls were given it, #871 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6 | #14,663 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,235 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,154 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,837 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,273 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,416 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,221 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,396 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,798 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,790 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (100)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 6 | #12,766 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,276 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,946 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,412 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,159 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,494 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,109 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,307 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,620 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,128 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,017 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,845 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 19 | #2,696 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,611 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,596 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,161 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,390 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,697 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,198 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 18 | #2,394 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,686 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,771 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,995 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 19 | #2,198 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,856 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,713 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,176 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,492 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,773 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,663 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,308 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 15 | #2,183 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 15 | #2,153 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 14 | #2,216 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 19 | #1,818 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 18 | #1,880 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 19 | #1,814 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,967 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 16 | #2,076 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 18 | #1,995 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 29 | #1,435 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 18 | #2,061 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 20 | #1,989 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 33 | #1,401 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 29 | #1,560 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 38 | #1,312 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 39 | #1,255 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 48 | #1,112 | 0.04 |
| 1921 | 39 | #1,250 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 37 | #1,267 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 33 | #1,360 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 53 | #995 | 0.05 |
| 1917 | 63 | #871 | 0.06 |
| 1916 | 38 | #1,159 | 0.04 |
| 1915 | 41 | #1,051 | 0.04 |
| 1914 | 37 | #979 | 0.05 |
| 1913 | 38 | #861 | 0.06 |
| 1912 | 33 | #882 | 0.06 |
| 1911 | 22 | #948 | 0.05 |
| 1910 | 17 | #1,095 | 0.04 |
| 1909 | 11 | #1,339 | 0.03 |
| 1908 | 14 | #1,116 | 0.04 |
| 1907 | 15 | #1,022 | 0.05 |
| 1906 | 17 | #909 | 0.06 |
| 1905 | 15 | #995 | 0.05 |
| 1904 | 15 | #957 | 0.05 |
| 1903 | 20 | #778 | 0.08 |
| 1902 | 19 | #810 | 0.07 |
| 1901 | 18 | #787 | 0.08 |
| 1900 | 15 | #1,000 | 0.05 |
| 1899 | 18 | #780 | 0.08 |
| 1898 | 23 | #688 | 0.09 |
| 1897 | 15 | #852 | 0.06 |
| 1896 | 27 | #604 | 0.11 |
| 1895 | 14 | #884 | 0.06 |
| 1894 | 21 | #656 | 0.09 |
| 1893 | 19 | #678 | 0.09 |
| 1892 | 16 | #751 | 0.08 |
| 1891 | 13 | #777 | 0.07 |
| 1890 | 16 | #683 | 0.08 |
| 1889 | 14 | #706 | 0.08 |
| 1888 | 15 | #679 | 0.08 |
| 1887 | 16 | #577 | 0.11 |
| 1886 | 19 | #517 | 0.13 |
| 1885 | 8 | #828 | 0.06 |
| 1884 | 10 | #712 | 0.08 |
| 1883 | 17 | #475 | 0.15 |
| 1882 | 13 | #521 | 0.12 |
| 1881 | 13 | #481 | 0.14 |
| 1880 | 11 | #536 | 0.12 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Malvina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Malvina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 100 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Malvina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Malvina, and how old are they?
An estimated 306 Americans named Malvina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (18% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 45 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 938 people named Malvina (934 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 383 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Malvina born?
The states with the most babies named Malvina are New York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, with 87% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Massachusetts is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 147 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Massachusetts | 50 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 39 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Louisiana | 24 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Malvina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Malvina is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 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 Malvina with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Malvina
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 Malvina and names like it
- Compare Malvina and LydaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sMalvina peaked in 1917.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Malvina since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Malvina: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Malvina.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Malvina alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.