Malinda
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A female given name originating as a coinage, variant of Melinda
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 29 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
Malinda is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 6.9K(measured from records)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 20Kfew records
- USUnited States1 in 23K
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 Malinda 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 387 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
14,520 people, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Marinda in ZA South Africa, NZ New Zealand and Milinda in IN India, LK Sri Lanka.
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 originating as a coinage, variant of Melinda.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Malinda, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Malinda 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 14,520 | 1 in 23K | 14K | Malinda | 387 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Marinda | 48 |
| LK Sri Lanka | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Milinda | 27 |
| IN India | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 433K | 22 | Milinda | 16 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 27K | listed | Malinda | 64 |
| SG Singapore | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Malinda | 14 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Marinda | 21 |
| GY Guyana | 108 | 1 in 6.9K | 108 | — | 5 |
14,520 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the penguin-baby-names-2009 register; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)Malinda is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Esperanto, undeserving, unworthy, unbecoming (of something or someone)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
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)- Malinda Russellb. 1812USCookbook author
- Malinda Cramerb. 1844USAmerican writer
- Malinda Seneviratneb. 1965LKwriter and poet
- Malinda Brumfield Whiteb. 1967USAmerican politician and businesswoman
- Malinda Williamsb. 1970USAmerican actress
- Malinda Lob. 1974USAmerican writer of young adult novels (1974-)
- Mindy McCreadyb. 1975USnot in their usual nameAmerican country music singer (1975–2013)
- Malinda Warnapurab. 1979LKSri Lankan cricketer
- Malinda Pushpakumarab. 1987LKSri Lankan cricketer
- Malinda Kathleen Reeseb. 1994USAmerican YouTube personality
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)42 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 14K | #1,933 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1969 | 460 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1973 | 459 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1970 | 453 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1978 | 440 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1971 | 427 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1972 | 419 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1979 | 404 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1974 | 399 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1968 | 388 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1959 | 387 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1976 | 382 | — |
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 Malinda mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name originating as a coinage, variant of Melinda. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Malinda?
- In the etymology graph, Melissa, Melanie and Melinda are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Mel and Mellony.
- Is Malinda a male or female name?
- Malinda is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Malinda have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Malinda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled malinda.
- How common is the name Malinda?
- In the United States, the national register counted 14,520 people named Malinda in 2020, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/malindaThe 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, “Malinda”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.