Mafalda
Mafalda is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 758th, in 1915.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192585 births
- Best rank
- #758in 1915
- Since 1902
- 1,279people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,279 girls have been named Mafalda in the United States since 1902, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1925, with 85 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 85 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1922, and the 1920s alone account for 53%. It has spent 15 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1925, its biggest year
Mafalda was the 803rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1925 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1925.
Names that rose and fell with Mafalda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Yoshikopeak 1921
- Ruthepeak 1924
- Eleanorepeak 1921
- Evelynepeak 1922
- Loraynepeak 1922
- Elinorepeak 1917
- Alverapeak 1918
- Olenepeak 1922
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.