girls:
12 births since 1922
#5704 (0th percentile)
boys:
2.7k births since 1886
#2440 (47th percentile)
overall:
2.7k births since 1886
#5192 (33rd percentile)
The name Malvin is the #5,192 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,685 recorded births since 1886. This represents the 32.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 32.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,440 (46.8% percentile) for all time with 2,673 births since 1886. For girls, it ranks #5,704 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 12 births since 1922.
Malvin first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1886 (1886 for boys and 1922 for girls). Birth data for Malvin is available in 120 out of the 138 years between 1886 and 2023 (120 years for boys and 2 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Malvin has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Malvin reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 11.5% percentile (ranked #487) with 60 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 75 births per million (ranked 8.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Malvin ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 4.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Malvin reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #596) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1928, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1928.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Malvin".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Malvin. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 81.0% confident that Malvin is pronounced as MAL-vihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAHL-vihn, at 19.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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