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 #4,201 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
50times a registrar ranked it
37years from first to last
#305highest recorded position

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2003–2025

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
2025	#4201

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, 1989–2025 · 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 recent2025
Most recently recorded at #4201 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · 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)	#4201 (2025)	18 of 23	92 (2003–2025)	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 →

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1989 to 2025. 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
2025	England and Wales	female	#4201	5	High	Verified
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.

Where Malena is officially recorded

3 official registrars have recorded Malena, between 1989 and 2025, in 34 of those 37 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Norway	1989–2024	31	#305 in 2006
England and Wales	2003–2025	18	#2464 in 2014
Republic of Ireland	2007	1	#842 in 2007

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1989 and 2025, ranked in 34 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, 25y
Malek · #631, 27y
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, 30y
Etain · #305, 29y
Jun · #305, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1980s

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

Marwa · #306, 42y
Serina · #306, 41y
Daryll · #303, 9y
Dave · #303, 32y

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.

Jasmin#301
Kornelia#302
Lotta#303
Lydia#304
Mali#306
Mariam#307
Nicoline#308
Sienna#309

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
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 2025. 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

Popularity data

Where Malena is officially recorded

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Names published alongside Malena

Malena at a glance

Malena across 2 official records

Malena by decade in Norway · Girls

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Names published alongside Malena