In 2025, 67 US girls were named Maleni, making it the 2,600th most common girls’ name of the year, up 555 places from #3,155 in 2024. That is 16 more than the 51 girls named Maleni in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,317, reached in 2019. That year also had the most girls given the name: 174. For comparison, it was #9,301 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maleni in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1991 with 11 babies. In all, 963 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 493 babies named Maleni.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 747 US girls were named Maleni; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 174. In 2025 that was about 1 in 23,989 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Maleni ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,456 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), Maelani (812 babies since 1880) and Mailani (711 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Maileny and Malenny are summarised on this page.