Malynda
Malynda was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,691 among girls’ names; 915 Americans have been recorded with it since 1953 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Malynda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Malynda?
#12,691 among girls’ names, 2025
Malynda entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #12,691 in 2025.
36 babies in 1979, the peak
Malynda peaked in 1979, when 36 girls were given it, #2,555 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,691 | 4.4 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,804 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,257 | 3.5 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,095 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,228 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,490 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,230 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,371 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,710 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,348 | 3.3 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 5 | #17,375 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,777 | 4.5 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,382 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,220 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,619 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,690 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,983 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,481 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,594 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,445 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,177 | 10.3 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,733 | 11.2 |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,005 | 7.9 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,446 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,583 | 10.7 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,401 | 10.9 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,508 | 14.6 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,218 | 11.0 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,424 | 10.1 |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,046 | 11.4 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,268 | 10.6 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,947 | 12.0 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,277 | 15.7 |
| 1979 | 36 | #2,555 | 22.4 |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,908 | 18.3 |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,047 | 17.0 |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,910 | 17.7 |
| 1975 | 30 | #2,591 | 20.6 |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,055 | 15.7 |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,078 | 15.1 |
| 1972 | 28 | #2,559 | 18.4 |
| 1971 | 25 | #2,841 | 15.0 |
| 1970 | 31 | #2,425 | 17.7 |
| 1969 | 25 | #2,679 | 14.8 |
| 1968 | 23 | #2,676 | 14.0 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,159 | 10.3 |
| 1966 | 18 | #2,996 | 10.6 |
| 1965 | 23 | #2,579 | 13.0 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,530 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 20 | #2,825 | 10.4 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,738 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,271 | 7.9 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,341 | 4.9 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,740 | 5.9 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,753 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,812 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,523 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,591 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,506 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,198 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Malynda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Malynda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Malynda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Malynda, and how old are they?
An estimated 859 Americans named Malynda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 36 and 56. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 804 people named Malynda (803 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 863 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Malynda?
Malynda is a less common spelling of Malinda: SSA has recorded 915 Malynda and 21,464 Malinda since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 22,379 babies since 1880, Malynda is the second most given (4.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 66 babies (11%), 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 Malynda
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 Malynda and names like it
- Compare Malynda and MalindaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sMalynda peaked in 1979.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Malynda since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Malynda.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Malynda alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.