Mafalda

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Mafalda

By the numbers

Total US births

1,279

Estimated living today

40

Median age today

94

Peak year

1925

Best rank

800th

Rank in 2025

unranked

First recorded

1902

How old the living Mafaldas are

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,279 babies given the name since 1902, about 40 are alive — 3 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1931 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Mafaldas

• Princess Mafalda of Savoy (1902–1944)Italian princess (1902–1944), landgravine of Hesse from 1940 to 1944
• Mafalda of Portugal (1197–1257)Portuguese infanta, Castilian queen consort, and nun
• Mafalda Arnauth (born 1974)Portuguese fado singer, veterinarian

People named Mafalda with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Mafalda is most common

• NY331
• PA230
• MA123
• NJ105
• RI36
• CT29
• IL7

Relative to how many babies each state records, Mafalda is most concentrated in Rhode Island (11.3×), Massachusetts (5.8×), New York (4.9×), Pennsylvania (4.9×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1925

The most popular girls’ names the year Mafalda peaked:

• Mary
• Dorothy
• Betty
• Helen
• Margaret
• Ruth

All the names of 1925

Mafalda elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Mafalda: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Mafalda is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 25 of them.

Mafalda by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Mafalda among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Mafalda lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 364 women called Mafalda were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 14 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 38 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.