Malwina
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name from English [in turn from Scottish Gaelic], equivalent to English Malvina
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/malˈvi.na/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Malwina is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 15K
- SESweden1 in 91K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 125 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
30,966 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- English[in(measured from records)
- ScottishGaelic](measured from records)
a female given name from English [in turn from Scottish Gaelic], equivalent to English Malvina
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Malwina 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #350 | 30,966 | 1 in 1.2K | 31K | Malwina | 125 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 119K | 2 | Malwina | 78 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 425K | listed | Malwina | 67 |
| US United States | — | 141 | 1 in 2.4M | 141 | Malwina | 83 |
| SE Sweden | — | 112 | 1 in 91K | 112 | Malwina | 6 |
| DK Denmark | — | 57 | 1 in 103K | 57 | Malwina | 15 |
| IS Iceland | — | 23 | 1 in 15K | 23 | — | 6 |
30,966 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Malwina Garfeinowa-Garskab. 1870PLliterary critic, translator, writer (1870-1932)
- Luisa Saracini-Belfortb. 1876ITnot in their usual namewriter
- Malwina Gercb. 1927PLPolish Righteous Among the Nations
- Malwina Ratajczakb. 1986PLPolish model
- Malwina Kusiorb. 1986PLPolish actress
- Malwina Bussb. 1991PLPolish actress (born 1991)
- Malwina Kopronb. 1994PLPolish sportsperson and athletics competitor
- Malwina Smarzekb. 1996PLPolish sportsperson
- Malwina ŁuczakPLPolish-Australian mathematician
- Malwina KruszelnickaPLPolish Righteous Among the Nations
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)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Malwina mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name from English [in turn from Scottish Gaelic], equivalent to English Malvina Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Malwina?
- In the etymology graph, Malvina is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Malwina?
- In Polish /malˈvi.na/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Malwina have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 31 thousand people named Malwina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled malwina.
- Where is Malwina most common?
- Malwina is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 thousand people carrying it.
- Is Malwina a male or female name?
- Malwina is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Poland (dane.gov.pl), Norway (SSB) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- How common is the name Malwina?
- In Poland, the national register counted 30,966 people named Malwina in 2026, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Malwina compared with other names?
- In Poland, Malwina is the 350th most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Malwina?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/malwinaThe 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, “Malwina” — the 350th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.