Given name

Malinalli

“vine”

Malinalli is a given name. It is used in Classical Nahuatl.

Meaning & origin

What it means

Malinalli goes back to a word meaning “vine.”

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2010. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Malinalli through the years

Babies since 1880
25
0 boys · 25 girls
Most popular year
2010
8 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
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Malinalli in U.S. Social Security birth records, 2010–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 8 in 2010.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Malinalli’s family of names

Malinalli may belong to the same name family as MALLINALLI. This is a tentative spelling connection.

Walk Malinalli’s family in the name graph

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Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

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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Haitian Creole · Modern

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>99% girls

Sibling ideas

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