Meaning and history
Mafalda is a medieval Portuguese form of Matilda, borne by the wife of Afonso, the first king of Portugal, and in modern times by the title character of Quino’s popular Argentine comic strip, published from 1964 to 1973.
19091909: no US SSA record for this spelling
1910: no US SSA record for this spelling
1911: no US SSA record for this spelling
1912: no US SSA record for this spelling
1913: 36 births, rank #894
19141914: 43 births, rank #896
1915: 76 births, rank #758
1916: 54 births, rank #933
1917: 76 births, rank #795
1918: 61 births, rank #920
19191919: 55 births, rank #961
1920: no US SSA record for this spelling
1921: 72 births, rank #875
1922: 66 births, rank #902
1923: 81 births, rank #816
19241924: 71 births, rank #899
1925: 85 births, rank #803
1926: 69 births, rank #898
1927: 73 births, rank #869
19281928: 63 births, rank #945
Mafalda moved from #869 to #945 for girls between 1927 and 1928. Its highest annual birth count came in 1925, with 85 births.