Talk:Mal/@comment-173.62.250.164-20150802032257/@comment-25803656-20150802053510

+A Wikia Contributor:Mal is her Nickname her birth name is Maleficent Bertha (last name unknown).the isle of the lost book reveals that Mal was not worthy of her full First name which is Maleficent so her mother just called her Mal and the movie reveals Mal's middle name as being Bertha(which the year book reveals is the middle name that Mal hates so much that it makes her wish she had a different one).

So yes Mal is actually the nickname for Maleficent :( which makes no sense since Maleficent is not that self obessed(not like gaston who always talks about himself and named his twin sons after himself in the isle of the lost book).plus I also have many reasons why I hate Mal being short for Maleficent:(