Given name
Malenia
Malenia is a feminine given name from Russian. It is used in Ingrian.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2022. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Malenia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 61
- 0 boys · 61 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 22 babies
- 2025
- 18
- #6,468 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 18 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 6,468 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Malenia’s family of names
In Ingrian usage, Malenia has a conventional equivalent in the English form Melanie.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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