Malena
#2,256 for girls in 2025, 81 births
- Peak · girls
- 1886 · 6 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,058since 1886
Malena over time
Rank among girls' names. Malena has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,256 | 81 |
| 2024 | #2,462 | 73 |
| 2023 | #2,517 | 70 |
| 2022 | #2,364 | 78 |
| 2021 | #2,384 | 75 |
| 2020 | #2,779 | 59 |
| 2019 | #2,128 | 88 |
| 2018 | #2,254 | 81 |
| 2017 | #2,144 | 89 |
| 2016 | #2,308 | 82 |
| 2015 | #1,984 | 100 |
| 2014 | #1,838 | 110 |
| 2013 | #2,032 | 95 |
| 2012 | #1,983 | 98 |
| 2011 | #1,772 | 115 |
| 2010 | #1,751 | 118 |
| 2009 | #1,769 | 123 |
| 2008 | #1,789 | 122 |
| 2007 | #1,613 | 138 |
| 2006 | #1,627 | 130 |
| 2005 | #1,690 | 117 |
| 2004 | #1,423 | 146 |
| 2003 | #1,755 | 107 |
| 2002 | #1,386 | 139 |
| 2001 | #1,560 | 119 |
| 2000 | #1,845 | 93 |
| 1999 | #2,095 | 73 |
| 1998 | #2,244 | 63 |
| 1997 | #2,309 | 58 |
| 1996 | #2,510 | 50 |
| 1995 | #2,687 | 45 |
| 1994 | #2,935 | 40 |
| 1993 | #2,882 | 41 |
| 1992 | #2,548 | 49 |
| 1991 | #2,790 | 42 |
| 1990 | #4,380 | 22 |
| 1989 | #3,784 | 26 |
| 1988 | #3,690 | 25 |
| 1987 | #4,283 | 19 |
| 1986 | #3,459 | 25 |
| 1985 | #2,939 | 31 |
| 1984 | #3,726 | 21 |
| 1983 | #2,360 | 40 |
| 1982 | #2,959 | 30 |
| 1981 | #2,563 | 36 |
| 1980 | #2,651 | 35 |
| 1979 | #2,582 | 35 |
| 1978 | #2,237 | 41 |
| 1977 | #2,341 | 38 |
| 1976 | #2,664 | 29 |
| 1975 | #2,060 | 42 |
| 1974 | #1,733 | 52 |
| 1973 | #1,913 | 43 |
| 1972 | #1,502 | 63 |
| 1971 | #1,516 | 66 |
| 1970 | #1,719 | 53 |
| 1969 | #2,704 | 24 |
| 1968 | #3,610 | 14 |
| 1967 | #3,085 | 17 |
| 1966 | #5,809 | 6 |
| 1965 | #4,831 | 8 |
| 1964 | #5,008 | 8 |
| 1963 | #5,296 | 7 |
| 1962 | #4,011 | 11 |
| 1961 | #4,239 | 10 |
| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 |
| 1959 | — | |
| 1958 | #3,379 | 13 |
| 1957 | #3,930 | 10 |
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| 1954 | #5,148 | 6 |
| 1953 | #5,040 | 6 |
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| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 |
| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 |
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| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 |
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| 1930 | #4,047 | 6 |
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| 1924 | #4,434 | 6 |
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| 1886 | #993 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Malena! It came in at #993, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1887–1923, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Malena is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Minnesota#744 · 1 in 4,293
- Utah#753 · 1 in 3,955
- Ohio#1,024 · 1 in 7,049
- North Carolina#1,030 · 1 in 6,010
- Indiana#1,030 · 1 in 6,501
Best ever in a state: #312 in West Virginia, 1974.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Minnesota | #744 | 6 | 1 in 4,293 |
| Utah | #753 | 5 | 1 in 3,955 |
| Ohio | #1,024 | 8 | 1 in 7,049 |
| Indiana | #1,030 | 5 | 1 in 6,501 |
| North Carolina | #1,030 | 8 | 1 in 6,010 |
| Illinois | #1,527 | 6 | 1 in 11,038 |
| New York | #1,802 | 7 | 1 in 13,647 |
| California | #1,938 | 13 | 1 in 17,642 |
| Florida | #2,056 | 5 | 1 in 17,216 |
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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 Malena
- 206 spots since 2024 (#2,462 → #2,256)
- 523 spots since 2020 (#2,779 → #2,256)
- 272 spots since 2015 (#1,984 → #2,256)
- Debuted 1886
- Peaked 1886 at #993 (6 births)
- Births halved by 1887, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1886
- Highest: 1 in 12,577 girls born in 2004 were named Malena (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 19,843 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #993 in 1886, was only 1 in 24,089 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 30.4% of all girls named Malena (1,234) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6 | #993 (1886) | #993 |
| 1890s | 0 | — | — |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 0 | — | — |
| 1920s | 6 | #4,434 (1924) | #4,434 |
| 1930s | 11 | #4,047 (1930) | #4,114 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 45 | #3,379 (1958) | #4,702 |
| 1960s | 111 | #2,704 (1969) | #4,429 |
| 1970s | 462 | #1,502 (1972) | #2,027 |
| 1980s | 288 | #2,360 (1983) | #3,241 |
| 1990s | 483 | #2,095 (1999) | #2,738 |
| 2000s | 1,234 | #1,386 (2002) | #1,646 |
| 2010s | 976 | #1,751 (2010) | #2,019 |
| 2020s | 436 | #2,256 (2025) | #2,460 |
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.
Malena in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
More about 2008
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1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 15,499 of them was named Malena, which outranked 91.3% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,786Adina123
- #1,786Cailey123
- #1,786Janell123
- #1,789Malena122
- #1,789Chandler122
- #1,789Cooper122
- #1,789Elly122
- #1,800Aidan121
- #1,800Brooklin121
- #1,800Jadelyn121
Tied with 10 names at #1,789; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.