Mafalda
Last seen for girls in 1937 at #2,196
- Peak · girls
- 1915 · 76 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,279since 1902
Mafalda over time
Rank among girls' names. Mafalda has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
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| 1937 | #2,196 | 14 |
| 1936 | #2,386 | 12 |
| 1935 | #2,575 | 11 |
| 1934 | #2,289 | 13 |
| 1933 | #2,052 | 15 |
| 1932 | #2,037 | 16 |
| 1931 | #1,336 | 30 |
| 1930 | #1,347 | 32 |
| 1929 | #1,195 | 39 |
| 1928 | #936 | 63 |
| 1927 | #863 | 73 |
| 1926 | #893 | 69 |
| 1925 | #800 | 85 |
| 1924 | #893 | 71 |
| 1923 | #811 | 81 |
| 1922 | #897 | 66 |
| 1921 | #868 | 72 |
| 1920 | #989 | 55 |
| 1919 | #954 | 55 |
| 1918 | #915 | 61 |
| 1917 | #792 | 76 |
| 1916 | #928 | 54 |
| 1915 | #756 | 76 |
| 1914 | #888 | 43 |
| 1913 | #881 | 36 |
| 1912 | #1,080 | 23 |
| 1911 | #1,300 | 13 |
| 1910 | #1,935 | 7 |
| 1909 | #1,607 | 8 |
| 1908 | #2,101 | 5 |
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| 1902 | #1,793 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Mafalda! It came in at #1,793, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1902–1908, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Mafalda is popular in 1929
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#342 · 1 in 4,862
- New York#422 · 1 in 6,440
- Pennsylvania#531 · 1 in 11,846
Best ever in a state: #124 in Rhode Island, 1922.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #342 | 6 | 1 in 4,862 |
| New York | #422 | 15 | 1 in 6,440 |
| Pennsylvania | #531 | 7 | 1 in 11,846 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Mafalda
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1937
- Biggest jump: 199 spots in 1913 (#1,080 → #881)
- Biggest drop: 259 spots in 1929 (#936 → #1,195)
- Debuted 1902
- Peaked 1915 at #756 (76 births)
- Births halved by 1930, 15 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 1913–1928
- Highest: 1 in 12,945 girls born in 1915 were named Mafalda (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 76,002 girls born in 1937 (0.00%)
- 52.7% of all girls named Mafalda (674) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1900s | 18 | #1,607 (1909) | #1,834 |
| 1910s | 444 | #756 (1915) | #1,043 |
| 1920s | 674 | #800 (1925) | #915 |
| 1930s | 143 | #1,336 (1931) | #2,027 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Mafalda in 1929
Top girls' names in 1929
More about 1929
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1,116,561 girls got a published name in 1929; 1 in 28,630 of them was named Mafalda, which outranked 77.4% of the 5,277 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,174Roselle40
- #1,174Stanley40
- #1,174Tennie40
- #1,195Mafalda39
- #1,195Ailene39
- #1,195Aleen39
- #1,195Atha39
- #1,212Antonetta38
- #1,212Ardeth38
- #1,212Athena38
Tied with 16 names at #1,195; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.