Malvina
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Malvina |
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| Gender | feminine |
| Related names | Malwine, Malvine, Malwida, Malve, Mal |
| Wikipedia articles | All pages beginning with Malvina |
Malvina is a female given name. It is derived from a character in Macpherson's Ossian of that name. Especially in Germany this name was once quite popular, possibly due to Ossian's influence on Goethe, Klopstock and Herder. Today the name is quite rare.
Variants of Malvina include Malwine (German Form), Malvine, Malwida, Malve, and Mal.
People with the name "Malvina" include:
- Malvina Bolus (1906-1997), Canadian historian, art collector, editor of the Hudson's Bay Company magazine "The Beaver"
- Malvina Hoffman (1887 – 1966), American sculptor
- Malvina Longfellow (1889 - 1962), American stage and silent movie actress
- Malvina Major (b. 1943), New Zealand singer
- Malvina Pastorino (1916 - ), Argentine film actress
- Malvina Reynolds (1900 - 1978), American folk/blues singer-songwriter and political activist

