Mafalda
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ma-FAL-da
- Origin
- Germanic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,276 for girls
Mafalda is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “might + battle”. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies).
What does Mafalda mean?
Germanic: Portuguese and Italian form of Matilda
“might + battle”
Mafalda is the thoughtful little girl of Quino's Argentine comic strip, first published in 1964.
Is Mafalda a girl's or a boy's name?
Mafalda is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Mafalda in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,276th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 56,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 38% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Mafalda, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2013, with 6 girls.
2025 had more girls named Mafalda than any year since 2017.
Half of all the girls named Mafalda in the UK since 1996 were born between 2012 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.
Mafalda in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #4,276 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,864 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 4 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 2016 | 2 | #7,579 |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 6 | #3,719 |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 4 | #4,795 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 4 | #4,494 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 1 | #5,280 |
Names like Mafalda
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Matilda, Ada, Lola, Luella, Rosa, Etta, Mabel, Martha, Ida, Harriet, Lottie, Manuela
More Germanic names
Amelia, Liam, Henry, Charlotte, William, Archie, Charlie, Emma, Freddie, Ella, Harry, Millie, Albie, Louie, Miles, Alice
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Mafalda: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mafalda, updated 20 October 2026.