Malin
Malin is a first name and family name .
Origin and meaning
The name Malin is mostly known as a female first name in Germany. It is a Swedish short form of the female first name Magdalena . In Sweden the name is stressed on the first syllable, i.e. the A. Since the name Malin is registered in Germany as a usually female first name and also a female single first name, the male name Malin should only be entered in conjunction with an unambiguous male second first name (see also the name advice center of the University of Leipzig, Leipzig 2003).
In the English-speaking world, the name Malin is used as a female and male first name. The female form of the name Malin is a subsidiary form of Maline / Malina / Maleen (= short forms of Magdalena). The male first name Malin is explained as an English name meaning "strong, little warrior" (see also Bruce Lansky "35,000 Baby names" New York 1995, p. 390). The male form of the name Malin is an English spelling of the originally Irish male name Maílín, meaning "warrior".
In addition, a male first name Malin can be found in the South Slavic and English-speaking areas. The South Slavic male first name Malin is an extension of the male given name Maljo or Malo, which in turn is a short form of the male given name Mališa or Malischa, which contains the Slavic element "maly" in the meaning "small" and mostly as a Slavic translation of the biblical Is used in the name of Paul to mean “the little one”. Other male forms of the name include Malo, Mali, Male, Maljen, Malen and, more rarely, Malian.
Well-known namesake
Female first name
- Malin Hartelius (* 1966), Swedish opera singer
- Malin (singer) , Norwegian participant in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2005
- Malin Åkerman (* 1978), Canadian actress
- Malin Andersson (* 1973), Swedish national soccer player and coach
- Malin Baryard-Johnsson (* 1975), Swedish show jumper
- Malin "Linn" Berggren (* 1970), Swedish singer, see Ace of Base
- Malin Büttner (* 1975), German editor and presenter
- Malin Crépin (* 1978), Swedish actress.
- Malin Lundgren (* 1967), Swedish national soccer player
- Malin Melcherson, one of the main characters in the television series and the novel Ferien auf Saltkrokan
- Malin Moström (* 1975), Swedish national soccer player
- Malin Schwerdtfeger (* 1972), German writer
- Malin Steffen (* 1993), German actress
Male first name
- Malin Craig (1875–1945), American general
family name
- Andreas Malin (* 1994), Liechtenstein-Austrian football player
- David Malin (* 1941), Anglo-Australian astronomer and astrophotographer
- Georg Malin (* 1926), Liechtenstein artist and historian
- Jaan Malin (* 1960), Estonian poet
- Jesse Malin (* 1968), American rock musician
- Johann August Malin (1902–1942), Austrian resistance fighter
- Markus Malin (* 1987), Finnish snowboarder
- Michael C. Malin (* 1950), American planetary researcher
- Sam Malin (* 1963), Canadian entrepreneur
- Shimon Malin (* 1937), physicist
See also
- Malina
- Malin Head , the northernmost point of Ireland and is located in County Donegal on the Inishowen peninsula
- Malin Valley , Valley in Victoria Land, Antarctica
- Malin (Bistrița-Năsăud) , village in Romania
- Malin (Oregon) , City in Oregon, United States
- Malin (Donegal) location in Ireland
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