Malvina

Where Malvina comes from

Malvina hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #518 among girls — 11 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1883
    Peak, #465
    17 babies named Malvina — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1885
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #793.
  4. 1900
    Malvina Reynolds born
    American folk singer
  5. 1903
    Malvina Polo born
    American actress
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Malvina Reynolds · American folk singer, 1900–1978
  • Malvina Polo · American actress, 1903–2000
  • Malvina Garrigues · singer, 1825–1904
  • Malvina Major · New Zealand opera soprano, born 1943
  • Malvina Hoffman · American sculptor, 1885–1966

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.