Malena

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Malena: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Malena: Recorded since 1989, it reached #305 in 2006, and it stood at #465 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
49times a registrar ranked it
36years from first to last
#305highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2003–2022

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2003	#3594
2004	#4598
2005	#3382
2007	#2627
2008	#5545
2009	#4564
2010	#3156
2011	#2636
2012	#4838
2013	#5742
2014	#2464
2015	#3252
2016	#4096
2017	#4763
2018	#4684
2021	#5581
2022	#4645

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 31 of the 36 years from 1989 to 2024.

In 2018: #394 among girls in Norway, #4684 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1989–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1989
First recorded at #676 among girls in Norway in 1989 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1989–2024
Highest recorded position: #305 among girls in Norway, in 2006 (recorded 1989–2024).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #465 among girls in Norway, in 2024.
Norway · Girls

Malena appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 31 years beginning in 1989, and has registered 256 births with the name.

Malena across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Malena's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#676 (1989)	#305 (2006)	#465 (2024)	31 of 36	256 (1989–2024)	15 (2005)
England and Wales · Girls	#3594 (2003)	#2464 (2014)	#4645 (2022)	17 of 20	87 (2003–2022)	10 (2014)

Malena by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Malena in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1980s	4	1 of 10	4
1990s	57	8 of 10	7
2000sbusiest	100	10 of 10	10
2010s	78	9 of 10	9
2020s	17	3 of 10	6

Across Norway · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 10 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Malena appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1989 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #305 in Norway in 2006.

Malena's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4096	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#3252	7	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2464	10	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4838	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2636	9	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#3156	7	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#4564	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2627	8	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3382	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3594	4	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#465	5	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#445	6	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#425	6	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#394	9	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#342	12	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#409	9	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#395	10	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#492	6	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#425	9	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#427	9	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#446	8	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#529	6	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#324	15	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#473	7	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#383	11	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#305	15	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#306	15	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#366	11	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#504	6	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#463	7	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#424	8	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#559	5	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#408	9	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#437	8	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#331	12	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#491	7	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#508	7	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#527	6	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#653	4	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#660	4	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#676	4	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#842	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1989 and 2024, ranked in 33 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #305, first reached in 2006.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 15 births, registered in Norway in 2005.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2003, and 18 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Maleeka · #2247, 24y
Malek · #631, 26y
Malene · #66, 50y
Målfrid · #80, 41y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Denzel · #305, 30y
Divine · #305, 29y
Etain · #305, 29y
Jun · #305, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1980 and 1989.

Serina · #306, 41y
Daryll · #303, 9y
Dave · #303, 31y
Hughie · #307, 30y

Malena was ranked #305 in Norway · Girls in 2006. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Malena and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Malena without appearing here.

Malena moved ahead of

Geraldine Compare
In 2013 they stood at #5742 and #3536 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #2464 and #4684.
Kristy Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4838 and #3285 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #2464 and #4684.
Kari Compare
In 2015 they stood at #5742 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #4096 and #5785.
Kristine Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3252 and #3252 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #4096 and #5785.

Moved ahead of Malena

Blake Compare
In 2011 they stood at #2636 and #2893 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #4838 and #1893.
Rory Compare
In 2016 they stood at #3252 and #5730 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #4763 and #2706.
Meabh Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3252 and #4103 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #4096 and #2233.
Hayden Compare
In 2006 they stood at #3382 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #2627 and #1741.

Moved the opposite way to Malena

Lene Compare
Between 1989 and 2018 in Norway · Girls, Malena went from #676 to #394 while Lene went from #27 to #489.
Martina Compare
Between 1989 and 2018 in Norway · Girls, Malena went from #676 to #394 while Martina went from #256 to #493.
Stephanie Compare
Between 1989 and 2018 in Norway · Girls, Malena went from #676 to #394 while Stephanie went from #178 to #527.
Monica Compare
Between 1989 and 2017 in Norway · Girls, Malena went from #676 to #342 while Monica went from #47 to #542.

Moved the same way as Malena

Belinda Compare
Between 2003 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Malena went from #3594 to #5581 and Belinda from #909 to #4634.
Carol Compare
Between 2003 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Malena went from #3594 to #5581 and Carol from #1722 to #3519.
Kerry Compare
Between 2003 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Malena went from #3594 to #5581 and Kerry from #415 to #4634.
Kirsten Compare
Between 2003 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Malena went from #3594 to #5581 and Kirsten from #289 to #5581.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1989 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #305 in Norway in 2006. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Malena

Malena at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Malena across 2 official records

Malena by decade in Norway · Girls

Malena appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Malena at a glance

Malena across 2 official records

Malena by decade in Norway · Girls

Malena appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

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Also first recorded in the 1980s

Names published alongside Malena

Malena and the names beside it

Malena moved ahead of

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