How Old Is Malon in Ocarina of Time?

Nintendo has not published Malon’s age. Zelda Wiki’s infobox has no age field. The numbers listed here are community estimates: child 9 or 10, adult 16 or 17.

Why the blank stays blank

People ask “how old is Malon” because the game shows two bodies and a seven-year skip, which looks like a birthday problem. It is not. The child scenes and the adult scenes are two visits to the same ranch, and the script does not have her say a number. I looked for an age on the character page’s fact box and did not find one. That absence is the official-record reading: the field is empty, so this page’s answer is “no official age,” not a guessed integer.

The two community ranges

A long Zelda Dungeon thread posts character-age charts. One chart writes Malon as 9 then 16. Another chart in the same thread writes 10 then 17. The thread’s Link row, 9 then 16, is tied there to an Iwata Asks discussion. Malon’s row is the fan step after that: treat her as about Link’s age, then add seven. Because both Malon rows come from one thread, the status column says one source, and I print both pairs. Choosing 10, or 17, would hide a disagreement that the thread itself did not settle.

Adult design, where she works, and what she wears after the skip are a different page: adult Malon. Whether any of this implies a marriage is on Malon and Link. The 2026 model does not add an age either; design changes are on the remake page.