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Mafalda

Girl

Origin of the name

Mafalda is an Italian and Portuguese name. The little heroine of the Argentine comic strip Mafalda made it famous.

Short-lived name

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1925 was its best year: 85 births, or 1 baby in 27,450. The trend faded fast: today's pace is 99% below the peak. No births recorded in 2025: the name is no longer given, or too rarely to be published. 53% of all babies named Mafalda since 1880 were born in the 1920s.
1,279births since 1880
1920sgeneration
No. 800rank at its peak, in 1925

Where babies named Mafalda are born

1925

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The darker the blue, the more common Mafalda is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.

Where it is most popular

Compared with the national average, Mafalda is most common in New York (4.1 times) and Pennsylvania (3.2), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.

Names from the same era

Blanchie · Cleola · Onita · Maudine · Dorothey · Melda

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