In 2025, 85 US girls were named Mailani, making it the 2,185th most common girls’ name of the year, up 815 places from #3,000 in 2024. That is 30 more than the 55 girls named Mailani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,014, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 98. For comparison, it was #4,271 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mailani in 27 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1996 with 5 babies. In all, 711 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 385 babies named Mailani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 504 US girls were named Mailani; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 98. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,909 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mailani ranked highest in Washington in 2025, at #1,178 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Malani (7,117 babies since 1880), Maylani (987 babies since 1880), Maleni (963 babies since 1880) and Maelani (812 babies since 1880).