Mafalda

Girl · recorded 1902–1937

  • 1937last recorded
  • 1915best year

Most popular in 1915.

Last recorded in 1937. Fewer than five girls a year have been given it since, so it's a true rarity.

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Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Mafalda.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1902

0397719021911192019281937

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Per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.
See the 31 recorded years as a table
Mafalda, per million girls born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
YearPer million
190219
190815
190923
191018
191131
191241
191358
191456
191577
191652
191770
191853
191949
192046
192158
192255
192367
192457
192570
192658
192761
192855
192935
193028
193128
193215
193315
193412
193510
193612
193713

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Mafalda isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

More like Mafalda

Mafalda doesn’t share a sound pattern with any other girls name in this corpus — about 1 name in 100 doesn’t. There’s nothing to compare it to yet.

The numbers

Every figure

Births in 1937
14
Rank in 1937
#2,196
How rare
1 in 76,002 girls
Since 1902
1,279

Mafalda was last recorded in 1937. Fewer than five girls have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1915, at 77 per million girls born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Mafalda doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.