Meaning not yet researched.
Malani: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 822 in 2025. Its best rank was #330 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #330 in 2024; #374 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Malani in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#374 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #330.
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Malani: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 822 girls in 2025. Peak: #330 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 943 (2024).
In 2025, 822 US girls were named Malani, making it the 374th most common girls’ name of the year, down 44 places from #330 in 2024. That is 121 fewer than the 943 girls named Malani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #330, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 943. For comparison, it was #1,252 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Malani in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1977 with 6 babies. In all, 7,117 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 4,798 babies named Malani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,099 US girls were named Malani; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 943. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,955 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Malani ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #63 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 2 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Maylani (987 babies since 1880), Maleni (963 babies since 1880), Maelani (812 babies since 1880) and Mailani (711 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Malanie, Maleny and Maloni are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Malanie (901), Maleny (536), Maloni (507), Mahlani (457), Malini (327), Malania (321), Malahni (228), Malanii (197), Malonie (142), Malanni (101), Maylanie (98), Malenie (85), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Malani in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 21 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 52 | #63 | — |
| Mississippi | 24 | #94 | — |
| Delaware | 7 | #134 | — |
| South Carolina | 28 | #169 | — |
| Georgia | 50 | #213 | #1,268 |
| Florida | 83 | #227 | #657 |
| North Carolina | 46 | #237 | #952 |
| Alabama | 20 | #240 | — |
| Virginia | 33 | #252 | #1,031 |
| Illinois | 39 | #274 | #957 |
| Ohio | 39 | #285 | #1,399 |
| Tennessee | 26 | #306 | — |
| Kentucky | 14 | #324 | — |
| Arkansas | 10 | #327 | — |
| Texas | 98 | #355 | #2,773 |
| Michigan | 24 | #369 | #1,423 |
| Maryland | 15 | #371 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 29 | #380 | #739 |
| Indiana | 15 | #465 | — |
| Nevada | 6 | #481 | — |
| Missouri | 12 | #502 | — |
| Massachusetts | 11 | #504 | — |
| Arizona | 13 | #535 | — |
| Wisconsin | 9 | #553 | — |
| New York | 24 | #692 | #747 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #799 | — |
| New Jersey | 9 | #817 | #569 |
| Colorado | 6 | #867 | — |
| California | 31 | #927 | #1,516 |
| Washington | 6 | #1,003 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 822 | #374 | — | — |
| 2024 | 943 | #330 | — | — |
| 2023 | 870 | #350 | — | — |
| 2022 | 790 | #397 | 5 | #13,612 |
| 2021 | 750 | #422 | — | — |
| 2020 | 618 | #494 | — | — |
| 2019 | 433 | #670 | — | — |
| 2018 | 373 | #743 | — | — |
| 2017 | 290 | #920 | — | — |
| 2016 | 210 | #1,189 | — | — |
| 2015 | 196 | #1,252 | — | — |
| 2014 | 103 | #1,946 | — | — |
| 2013 | 83 | #2,250 | — | — |
| 2012 | 117 | #1,771 | — | — |
| 2011 | 104 | #1,924 | — | — |
| 2010 | 70 | #2,603 | — | — |
| 2009 | 58 | #2,987 | — | — |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,721 | — | — |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,433 | — | — |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,768 | — | — |
| 2005 | 48 | #3,243 | — | — |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,401 | — | — |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,186 | — | — |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,676 | — | — |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,132 | — | — |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,294 | — | — |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,913 | — | — |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,015 | — | — |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,185 | — | — |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,268 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,842 | — | — |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,448 | — | — |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,407 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,161 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).