Malvina
Malvina is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 475th, in 1883.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191763 births
- Best rank
- #475in 1883
- Since 1880
- 1,686people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,686 girls have been named Malvina in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 63 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 63 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1919, and the 1910s alone account for 22%. It has spent 33 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Malvina | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 136 | |
| 1890s | 182 | |
| 1900s | 159 | |
| 1910s | 375 | |
| 1920s | 330 | |
| 1930s | 152 | |
| 1940s | 125 | |
| 1950s | 99 | |
| 1960s | 48 | |
| 1980s | 16 | |
| 1990s | 6 | |
| 2000s | 24 | |
| 2010s | 28 | |
| 2020s | 6 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Malvina was the 871st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1917 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Malvina
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lydapeak 1916
- Almirapeak 1917
- Diciepeak 1920
- Nelliepeak 1918
- Sudiepeak 1916
- Fanniepeak 1918
- Lottiepeak 1916
- Idapeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.