Malene
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Danish: a female given name derived from Magdalene
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/malənə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Malene is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 532(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 204as Malin
- THThailand≈1 in 4.5Kas มาลินี
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Malene itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 325 (measured from records)
- 1 in 532 (inferred from the name graph)
214,916 named Milan
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
12 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Malin in SE Sweden, US United States and มาลินี in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name derived from Magdalene
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
How Malene is read(measured from records)
Malene is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Danish59%
a female given name derived from Magdalene
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English19%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Malene in English.
- Norwegian5.2%
definite plural of mal
as a wordrecorded as Norwegian Bokmålkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Malene counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | — | 214,916as Milan | 1 in 50 | 215K | — | — |
| SE Sweden | #275 | 50,065as Malin | 1 in 204 | 50K | Malin | 98 |
| HR Croatia | — | 24,038as Milan | 1 in 176 | 24K | — | — |
| US United States | — | 17,228as Milan | 1 in 19K | 12K | Malin | 325 |
| TH Thailand | #432 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | #480,145 | มาลินี | 97 |
| DK Denmark | #109 | 11,038 | 1 in 532 | 11K | Malene | 149 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 10,363as Milan | 1 in 203 | 10K | — | 1 |
214,916 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: MVČR — living population register 2017; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SURS — resident population given names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Malene is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Tower
as a nameThe book of African names
Danish: contracted form of MAGDALENE .
as a word
In Latvian, Nogriezts gabals no govs ādas
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Sānu, malas gabals
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Malene Bjørnb. 1914SEDanish designer and architect
- Malene Hauxnerb. 1942DKDanish landscape architect and author (1942–2012)
- Malene Birgerb. 1962DKDanish fashion designer
- Malene Blenkovb. 1967film producer
- Malene Rydahlb. 1975FRDanish writer
- Malene Iversenb. 1976cricketer
- Malene Espensenb. 1978GBDanish glamour model
- Malene Winther Mortensenb. 1982DKDanish singer
- Malene Olsenb. 1983DKDanish footballer
- Malene Helgøb. 1999NONorwegian tennis player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 38 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 11K | #64 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 424 | #23,042 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 211 | #5,046 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 1998 | 152 | #50 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 109 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 5 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4 | #23,042 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #56,882 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Malene mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name derived from Magdalene Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Malene?
- In the etymology graph, Magdalena, Lena and Magali are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Malene?
- A machine transcription gives /malənə/ (IPA) for Danish.
- Is Malene a male or female name?
- Malene is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Malene have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 215 thousand people named Milan, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Malene most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Malene is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 532 people — even though Czechia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Malene?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 11,038 people named Malene, about 1 in 532 residents.
- How common is Malene compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Malene is the 109th most common given name of 23,174 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Malene?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maleneThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Malene” — the 109th most common given name in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.