Malini
given name · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Malini is a given name, with more bearers in the Czechia than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: name of a god; a gardener.
- 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●
11 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Malin in SE Sweden, US United States, NL Netherlands and 7 more, Malene in DK Denmark, NO Norway, PL Poland and 3 more, 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●
name of a god; a gardener
Sources 1
- A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
Attested in 1 language 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●
- Hindi28K52%
- English9.1K17%
- Sinhala2.9K5%
- Assamese1.7K3%
- Telugu1.7K3%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 28,232 | 52% |
| English | 9,122 | 17% |
| Sinhala | 2,931 | 5% |
| Assamese | 1,724 | 3% |
| Telugu | 1,722 | 3% |
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●
Malini is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, first-person singular possessive nominative of mali
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, dative/locative singular of malina
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tkl, marine
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 |
|---|---|
| 1922 | 2 |
| 1928 | 4 |
| 1929 | 1 |
| 1931 | 2 |
| 1933 | 2 |
| 1934 | 2 |
| 1935 | 2 |
| 1936 | 5 |
| 1937 | 3 |
| 1938 | 3 |
| 1939 | 4 |
| 1940 | 4 |
| 1941 | 8 |
| 1942 | 5 |
| 1943 | 1 |
| 1944 | 4 |
| 1945 | 6 |
| 1946 | 10 |
| 1947 | 5 |
| 1948 | 9 |
| 1949 | 5 |
| 1950 | 6 |
| 1951 | 7 |
| 1952 | 9 |
| 1953 | 7 |
| 1954 | 8 |
| 1955 | 10 |
| 1956 | 5 |
| 1957 | 8 |
| 1958 | 9 |
| 1959 | 10 |
| 1960 | 8 |
| 1961 | 9 |
| 1962 | 6 |
| 1963 | 10 |
| 1964 | 15 |
| 1965 | 18 |
| 1966 | 10 |
| 1967 | 12 |
| 1968 | 27 |
| 1969 | 21 |
| 1970 | 25 |
| 1971 | 26 |
| 1972 | 33 |
| 1973 | 22 |
| 1974 | 24 |
| 1975 | 30 |
| 1976 | 36 |
| 1977 | 32 |
| 1978 | 37 |
| 1979 | 30 |
| 1980 | 17 |
| 1981 | 30 |
| 1982 | 21 |
| 1983 | 28 |
| 1984 | 22 |
| 1985 | 21 |
| 1986 | 26 |
| 1987 | 22 |
| 1988 | 28 |
| 1989 | 24 |
| 1990 | 19 |
| 1991 | 19 |
| 1992 | 12 |
| 1993 | 18 |
| 1994 | 11 |
| 1995 | 14 |
| 1996 | 9 |
| 1997 | 11 |
| 1998 | 8 |
| 2008 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 |
| 2010 | 3 |
| 2012 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 75 years between 1922–2014. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Malini Nobhadarab. 1885THThai princess
- Malini Rajurkarb. 1941INIndian singer
- Malini Fonsekab. 1947LKSri Lankan actor-politician
- Malini Olivob. 1961IEscientist and university professor
- Malini N. Menonb. 1965INIndian businesswoman
- Malini Awasthib. 1967INIndian singer
- Malini Agarwalb. 1977INIndian blogger
- Malini BalakrishnanINenvironmental engineer
- Malini RaghavanUSresearcher
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 29 sources across 19 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 194 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Malini?
- We estimate roughly 372 thousand people bear Malini (counting its spellings and scripts) across 16 countries in our records.
- In which country does Malini have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 215 thousand people bear Malini in the Czechia, more than in any other country in our records.
- Where is Malini most common?
- Malini is densest in the Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 50 people carrying it.
- How common is Malini compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Malini is the 124th most common given name of 31,396 given names recorded there.
- Is Malini a male or female name?
- Malini 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 Malini mean?
- Recorded meaning: name of a god; a gardener
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Malini” — the 124th most common given name in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.