Malin
- #6,838 for girls in 2025, 16 births
- Last seen for boys in 2024 at #8,312
- Given to girls 78.5% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 2012 · 66 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 840since 1974
Malin over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,838 | 16 | — | |
| 2024 | #8,443 | 12 | #8,312 | 9 |
| 2023 | #5,960 | 20 | — | |
| 2022 | #4,295 | 33 | #9,823 | 7 |
| 2021 | #4,719 | 28 | #7,587 | 10 |
| 2020 | #5,003 | 25 | #8,067 | 9 |
| 2019 | #6,698 | 17 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,853 | 38 | #6,345 | 13 |
| 2017 | #3,769 | 40 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,326 | 48 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #3,767 | 40 | #9,568 | 7 |
| 2014 | #3,778 | 40 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,076 | 53 | #8,789 | 8 |
| 2012 | #2,679 | 66 | #6,626 | 12 |
| 2011 | #2,838 | 61 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | #3,961 | 38 | #8,803 | 8 |
| 2009 | #4,370 | 34 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #5,574 | 25 | #9,871 | 7 |
| 2007 | #6,093 | 22 | #7,590 | 10 |
| 2006 | #6,840 | 18 | #6,904 | 11 |
| 2005 | #6,245 | 19 | #8,299 | 8 |
| 2004 | #8,259 | 13 | #7,536 | 9 |
| 2003 | #7,998 | 13 | #7,245 | 9 |
| 2002 | #10,246 | 9 | #7,055 | 9 |
| 2001 | #6,619 | 16 | #6,935 | 9 |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 | #6,839 | 9 |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | #10,122 | 8 | #8,479 | 6 |
| 1997 | — | #9,265 | 5 | |
| 1996 | #7,574 | 11 | — | |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 | — | |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 | — | |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | — | |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | — | |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 | — | |
| 1990 | — | #8,117 | 5 | |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 | — | |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | — | |
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| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | — | |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | — | |
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| 1975 | — | #5,464 | 5 | |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | — | |
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| 1969 | — | #4,404 | 5 | |
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| 1939 | — | #3,113 | 6 | |
| 1938 | — | #3,534 | 5 | |
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| 1935 | — | #3,645 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1974
The first year at least five girls were named Malin! It came in at #8,775, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1984, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Malin is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Malin in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Malin
Momentum · girls
Falling
- 1,605 spots since 2024 (#8,443 → #6,838)
- 1,835 spots since 2020 (#5,003 → #6,838)
- 3,071 spots since 2015 (#3,767 → #6,838)
Rise & fade · girls
38 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 2012 at #2,679 (66 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 26,683
- Highest: 1 in 26,683 girls born in 2012 were named Malin (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 100,454 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 52.5% of all girls named Malin (441) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1998
- Mostly boys until 1997, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #8,775 (1974) | #8,775 |
| 1980s | 25 | #9,244 (1988) | #9,664 |
| 1990s | 56 | #7,574 (1996) | #11,214 |
| 2000s | 179 | #4,370 (2009) | #7,141 |
| 2010s | 441 | #2,679 (2012) | #3,775 |
| 2020s | 134 | #4,295 (2022) | #5,876 |
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.
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