Malina is a female first name.
Malina is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,552 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,551 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Malina.
In fact, the name Malina did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Malina seemed to be more popular than ever in 2009. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,314, 169 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Malina, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Malina was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Malina a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #1,888 - with a total of 91 baby girls. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving girls with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
The odds of living in the same state as someone with the first name Malina are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This girl’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet girls and women with the name Malina in 23 states – that is about every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida or Georgia. In relation to the number of residents, the most women and girls with the first name Malina live in California – here, one in 20,857 bears this beautiful name. In comparison, if we look at all living women and girls in the whole country, only one in 78,181 will turn around if you call her first name Malina.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With six letters, the name Malina is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Malina and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Malina, you can simply say:
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Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Malina
Malina
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Malina sounds like this:
