Malin

Malin is the 8,499th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,726 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 80,200.

By the numbers

People: 3,726
Rank: 8,499th
How common: 1 in 80,200
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

Origin a matronymic

The surname is from a Middle English diminutive of the given name Mary.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Malin described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 88.2%
Hispanic or Latino 4.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Black, not Hispanic 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Malin

Markus Malin (born 1987)Finnish snowboarder

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

Surnames like Malin

Also a first name

Malin has been given to 1,070 American babies as a first name since 1935, peaking in 2012. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.