Malvín
loc · Latin script
Malvín is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Zimbabwe than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Possibly an altered form of Melvin.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 34K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 227K
- ZWZimbabwe≈1 in 4.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Zimbabwe (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 225 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Zimbabwe, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Malvin in US United States, PH Philippines, NO Norway and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Possibly an altered form of Melvin.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nordic Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Malvín counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZW Zimbabwe | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Malvin | 16 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Malvin | 52 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Malvin | 16 |
| US United States | — | 1,468 | 1 in 227K | 1.4K | Malvin | 225 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Malvin | 17 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #752 | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Malvin | 20 |
| ZM Zambia | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 1 | Malvin | 7 |
| NO Norway | — | 517 | 1 in 11K | 1.7K | Malvin | 25 |
| AL Albania | — | 121 | 1 in 25K | 121 | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Malvín mean, and where does it come from?
- Possibly an altered form of Melvin. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Nordic Names.
- In which country does Malvín have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.4 thousand people named Malvín in Zimbabwe, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled malvin.
- How common is the name Malvín?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,468 people named Malvín in 2020, about 1 in 227 thousand residents.
- How common is Malvín compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Malvín is the 752nd most common given name of 44,971 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/malv%C3%ADnThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Malvín” — the 752nd most common given name in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.