Malin

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Malin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 17th most common given name. Recorded meaning: diminutive of Malle, a pet-name for Mary; first attested Malina 1212 Cur (Nt).

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 204(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 539
  • USUnited States1 in 250K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Sweden (measured from records)

50,065 people

Sources
164 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 204 (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

diminutive of Malle, a pet-name for Mary; first attested Malina 1212 Cur (Nt)

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Malin 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.

Where Malin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden#1750,0651 in 20450KMalin164
BJ Benin#79≈12,000 est.≈1 in 1.1K—Malin6
NO Norway#21710,1361 in 53936KMalin89
US United States—1,3311 in 250K4.4KMalin124
FI Finland—1,2381 in 4.5K2.4KMalin27
IS Iceland—311 in 11K31—3

50,065 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Malin is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Sweden, United States, Norway

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

    Also written মলিন, Molin, Mullin, মালিন, মুলিন

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Mâlin, Malīn, Malín, Mălin, Målin

  • French given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, France, Norway, Benin

    Also written Mâlin, Mălin, Mälin, Mǎlín, Mãlįn

  • Spanish given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States, Norway, Philippines

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Mal-In, Málin, Maliñ, Mălin, Malín

62 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Malin is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, from the Germanic personal name Madalin, a short form of compound names with the initial element madal ‘council’.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In English, patronymic from maly, Serbian mali ‘small’; compare Maly.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In English, metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Male (a back-formation from Malka as if it contained the Slavic diminutive suffix -ke) + the Slavic metronymic suffix -in.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In English, from the medieval female personal name Malin, a diminutive of Mall.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In English, habitational name from Malin, a place in Ukraine.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

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)

1850190019502000Malin Craig, b. 1875Malin Persson Giolito, b. 1969Linn Berggren, b. 1970Malin Andersson, b. 1973Malin Moström, b. 1975Malin Åkerman, b. 1978Malin Crépin, b. 1978Dinah Nah, b. 1980Malin Olsson, b. 1982Malin Buska, b. 1984

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 81 sources across 35 countries.

Official registers attesting Malin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—50K#78
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202040K—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—36K#106
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)202510K—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—1.5K#635
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—1.2K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201K#10,133
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020294#10,133
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—45#6,181
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)202530—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202516—
IS IcelandÞjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry)202612—

Reference works 11

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 Malin mean, and where does it come from?
diminutive of Malle, a pet-name for Mary; first attested Malina 1212 Cur (Nt) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
Is Malin a male or female name?
Malin is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Malin?
In the etymology graph, Magdalena, Lena and Magali are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Malin have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 50 thousand people named Malin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled malin.
Where is Malin most common?
Malin is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 204 people carrying it.
How common is the name Malin?
In Sweden, the national register counted 50,065 people named Malin, about 1 in 204 residents.
How common is Malin compared with other names?
In Sweden, Malin is the 17th most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.

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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, “Malin” — the 17th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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