Malene
given name · Danish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Malene is a given name, with more bearers in the Czechia than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Danish and Norwegian Bokmål, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a female given name derived from Magdalene.
- SESweden1 in 204◐
- DKDenmark1 in 532
- NONorway1 in 539
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈372K ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 281 ●
- 1 in 50 ◐
across 16 countries
recorded for this name
148K records
Official registry-verified
Czechia
Spellings & scripts●
12 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Malin in SE Sweden, US United States, NL Netherlands and 7 more, Malini in IN India, MY Malaysia, GY Guyana, มาลินี in TH Thailand and Malani in LK Sri Lanka.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
a female given name derived from Magdalene
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | — | 214,916 | — | 1 in 50 | 215K | — | — |
| IN India | — | 53,193 | 39K rec. | — | 460 | Malini | 125 |
| SE Sweden | #203 | 50,065△ | 5.6K rec. | 1 in 204 | 50K | Malin | 97 |
| TH Thailand | #437 | 47,768 | 24K rec. | — | #480,145 | มาลินี | 97 |
| HR Croatia | — | 24,038 | — | 1 in 176 | 24K | — | — |
| FR France | — | 13,410△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 5.1K | 13K | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | 12,352 | 52K rec. | 1 in 27K | 12K | Malin | 281 |
| DK Denmark | #124 | 11,038△ | 3.7K rec. | 1 in 532 | 11K | Malene | 140 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 10,363 | 0 rec. | 1 in 203 | 10K | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | #349 | 10,136△ | 1.3K rec. | 1 in 539 | 36K | Malene | 57 |
| PL Poland | — | 9,825△ | 30 rec. | 1 in 3.9K | 9.8K | Malene | 7 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 8,473△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 2K | 8.5K | — | 2 |
Roughly 215K people in Czechia bear this name (about 1 in 50). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Danish51K63%
- Norwegian Bokmål11K13%
- Portuguese9.2K11%
- English4.4K5%
- Norwegian1.1K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Danish | 51,056 | 63% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 10,650 | 13% |
| Portuguese | 9,168 | 11% |
| English | 4,420 | 5% |
| Norwegian | 1,063 | 1% |
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●
Malene 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 Norwegian Bokmål, definite plural of mal
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Tower
as a nameThe book of African names
Danish: contracted form of MAGDALENE .
as a word
In Latvian, Nogriezts gabals no govs ādas
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Sānu, malas gabals
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1948 | 4 |
| 1969 | 5 |
| 1975 | 10 |
| 1976 | 6 |
| 1980 | 6 |
| 1981 | 5 |
| 1982 | 7 |
| 1983 | 9 |
| 1984 | 14 |
| 1985 | 13 |
| 1986 | 14 |
| 1987 | 95 |
| 1988 | 84 |
| 1989 | 70 |
| 1990 | 103 |
| 1991 | 105 |
| 1992 | 107 |
| 1993 | 103 |
| 1994 | 121 |
| 1995 | 114 |
| 1996 | 107 |
| 1997 | 104 |
| 1998 | 95 |
| 1999 | 110 |
| 2000 | 112 |
| 2001 | 88 |
| 2002 | 93 |
| 2003 | 81 |
| 2004 | 87 |
| 2005 | 79 |
| 2006 | 81 |
| 2007 | 82 |
| 2008 | 75 |
| 2009 | 61 |
| 2010 | 57 |
| 2011 | 66 |
| 2012 | 47 |
| 2013 | 49 |
| 2014 | 39 |
| 2015 | 38 |
| 2016 | 35 |
| 2017 | 33 |
| 2018 | 25 |
| 2019 | 28 |
| 2020 | 20 |
| 2021 | 23 |
| 2022 | 19 |
| 2023 | 20 |
| 2024 | 14 |
| 2025 | 11 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 50 years between 1948–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Malene Bjørnb. 1914SEDanish designer and architect
- Malene Hauxnerb. 1942DKDanish landscape architect and author (1942–2012)
- Malene Birgerb. 1962DKDanish fashion designer
- Malene Blenkovb. 1967film producer
- Malene Rydahlb. 1975FRDanish writer
- Malene Iversenb. 1976cricketer
- Malene Espensenb. 1978GBDanish glamour model
- Malene Winther Mortensenb. 1982DKDanish singer
- Malene Olsenb. 1983DKDanish footballer
- Malene Helgøb. 1999NONorwegian tennis player
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 38 sources across 21 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 313 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Malene?
- We estimate roughly 372 thousand people bear Malene (counting its spellings and scripts) across 16 countries in our records.
- In which country does Malene have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 215 thousand people bear Malene in the Czechia, more than in any other country in our records.
- Where is Malene most common?
- Malene is densest in the Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 50 people carrying it.
- How common is Malene compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Malene is the 124th most common given name of 31,396 given names recorded there.
- Is Malene a male or female name?
- Malene is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Malene mean?
- Recorded meaning: a female given name derived from Magdalene
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About this data
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, “Malene” — the 124th most common given name in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.