How Many People Are Named Malvina?
people named Malvina are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 1,085,031 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,686 babies named Malvina in Social Security records from 1880 to 2022, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
63 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Created by the poet James MacPherson in the 18th century for a character in his Ossian poems. He probably intended it to mean "smooth brow" in Gaelic.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Malvina in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Malvina alive today is about 62 years old, and 69% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 44 and 80 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Malvina first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1917, to 63 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2022.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2022
🏆 Rank History
Malvina has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #475, in 1883.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #475 (1883) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #995 in the 1910s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Malvina alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Malvina were born in New York than in any other state: about 10 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Malvina was given 5.8 times as often in New York and 5.5 times in Massachusetts.
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