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The first name 
Malinda

Malinda is a female first name.

When two girls called Malinda meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Malinda is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 girls have been named Malinda. In the SmartGenius ranking, Malinda is #2,387 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Malinda.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Malinda

Malinda -
evergreen, but special

For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Malinda annualy. This means that there have been girls named Malinda who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Malinda have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Malinda even more than any other time: in 1881, it holds its present record of rank #248 in the list of the most popular girls' names.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Malinda was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

How popular was Malinda 2022 among young parents?

Malinda has never been ranked higher than #248. In 2022, she rivaled the 2,373 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 65 girls named Malinda were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Malinda were born, there have been 151 newborns who received this name.

Malinda has 7 letters 
and begins with an M

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 seven letters, the name Malinda has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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.

Other names with 
M, a, l, i, n, d and a

If you take all the letters in the name Malinda – M, a, l, i, n, d and a – and put them together again, you can form another name, such as Madalin.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Malinda

If your name is Malinda 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...

This is how you spell the name Malinda

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Malinda, you can simply say:

Mouse

Apple

Lion

Igloo

Nut

Dinosaur

Apple

This is how the name Malinda is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Malinda in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Malinda

Malinda

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Malinda

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Malinda is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

M
A
L
I
N
D
A

Have you ever waved the name Malinda

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.

M
A
L
I
N
D
A

Beeping like crazy...

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. Malinda sounds like this: