Mafalda

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Mafalda is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. In Portugal it is the 86th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Germanic Matilda, via Italian/Portuguese tradition; 'strength in battle'.

rarermore common
  • PTPortugal1 in 503◐
  • CLChile1 in 15K
  • ARArgentina1 in 21K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈5.0K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
142 ●

55K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 56K ◐

Brazil

Meaning & origin●

From Germanic Matilda, via Italian/Portuguese tradition; 'strength in battle'.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Mafalda is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#93832,55027K rec.—66Mafalda40
PT Portugal#8616,6875.4K rec.—460Mafalda142
CL Chile#8395,990201 rec.—1Mafalda30
PE Peru—4,7763.9K rec.——Mafalda28
BR Brazil—3,8053.2K rec.1 in 56K6KMafalda80
IT Italy—1,5801.5K rec.—3Mafalda50
GB United Kingdom—798685 rec.—listedMafalda59
MX Mexico—688640 rec.——Mafalda38
US United States—5468.6K rec.1 in 609K546Mafalda109
UY Uruguay#826540435 rec.—1Mafalda11
ES Spain—364645 rec.1 in 137K364Mafalda52
PY Paraguay—334196 rec.——Mafalda10

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Portuguese94K58%
  • Spanish47K29%
  • English11K7%
  • French3.4K2%
  • Italian8691%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese94,05258%
Spanish47,15629%
English10,8267%
French3,3602%
Italian8691%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other recorded senses●

Mafalda is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Spanish, Variante portuguesa de Matilde.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • In French, Origine germanique, signifie « force au combat ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In German, weibl. Vom. germanischen Ur­ sprungs (

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • Portuguese and Italian: variant of MATILDA , used especially in Portugal. The name was taken there by a princess from the royal house of Savoy, who in 1146 went to marry the Portuguese king. St Mafalda (1203–52) was a daughter of King Sancho II of Portugal. King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, a member of the house of Savoy, gave it to a daughter of his in 1902.

    as a word

  • In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

01020304019201940196019802000202039 · 1955

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Mafalda in SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021), Chile, 1920–2021
Yearrecords
19203
19213
19225
19239
192411
192515
192612
192721
192817
192920
193020
193122
193220
193323
193418
193520
193618
193723
193824
193922
194022
194124
194220
194328
194429
194523
194621
194729
194834
194922
195025
195123
195235
195323
195426
195539
195633
195726
195824
195923
196021
196127
196220
196328
196437
196527
196626
196724
196822
196925
19707
197110
197211
197312
197411
19756
19765
19777
197810
19793
198011
19814
19828
19834
19841
19861
19874
19883
19903
19911
19931
19941
19962
19971
19981
19992
20021
20041
20081
20101
20111
20141
20181
20211

CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 84 years between 1920–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1000120014001600180020002200Matilde d'Altavilla, b. 1060Mafalda of Portugal, b. 1149Mafalda de Castilla, b. 1191Mafalda of Portugal, b. 1197Princess Mafalda of Savoy, b. 1902Mafalda Favero, b. 1905Mafalda Veiga, b. 1965Mafalda Marafusta, b. 1991Princess Mafalda of Bulgaria, b. 1994Mafalda Carbonell, b. 2008

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 59 sources across 28 countries.

Official registers attesting Mafalda
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—6K#2,963
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—6K#1,302
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20223.8K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—3.8K#3,305
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020546#19,300
PT PortugalIRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023)2019460#20
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—364#5,712
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—338#2,783
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2022270#3,153
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—78#10,032
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—66—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—56#7,890

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 441 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mafalda?
We estimate roughly 5.0 thousand people bear Mafalda (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Mafalda have the most bearers?
Mafalda is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled mafalda.
How common is Mafalda compared with other names?
In Argentina, Mafalda is the 938th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Mafalda a male or female name?
Mafalda is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Mafalda mean?
Recorded meaning: From Germanic Matilda, via Italian/Portuguese tradition; 'strength in battle'.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mafalda” — the 938th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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