Meaning not yet researched.
Milani: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,063 in 2025. Its best rank was #235 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #235 in 2022; #288 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Milani in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#288 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #235.
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Milani: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,063 girls in 2025. Peak: #235 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 1,299 (2022).
In 2025, 1,063 US girls were named Milani, making it the 288th most common girls’ name of the year, down 10 places from #278 in 2024. That is 78 fewer than the 1,141 girls named Milani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #235, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,299. For comparison, it was #667 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Milani in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1991 with 7 babies. In all, 11,656 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 6,826 babies named Milani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 9,407 US girls were named Milani; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 1,299. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,512 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Milani ranked highest in Rhode Island in 2025, at #117 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Melanie (263,254 babies since 1880), Melany (17,384 babies since 1880), Melani (5,912 babies since 1880) and Meilani (3,971 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Miliani, Mialani and Milanni are summarised on this page.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Miliani (637), Mialani (294), Milanni (254), Millani (137), Milliani (107), Milahni (100), Milenia (33), Miloni (31), Milini (16), Meilanni (15), Milauni (15), Milaniya (5), 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 Milani 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 12 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island | 8 | #117 | #223 |
| Georgia | 77 | #128 | #522 |
| Mississippi | 15 | #176 | — |
| District of Columbia | 5 | #181 | — |
| Alabama | 24 | #188 | — |
| Florida | 94 | #199 | #531 |
| Illinois | 46 | #218 | #434 |
| Louisiana | 20 | #220 | #856 |
| Maryland | 24 | #221 | #1,003 |
| Nevada | 12 | #227 | #623 |
| New Jersey | 35 | #237 | #277 |
| South Carolina | 21 | #238 | — |
| North Carolina | 44 | #253 | #671 |
| Ohio | 44 | #256 | #687 |
| Texas | 130 | #265 | #982 |
| Arizona | 26 | #279 | #561 |
| Virginia | 29 | #295 | #758 |
| Michigan | 30 | #301 | #817 |
| Connecticut | 10 | #314 | #433 |
| Kansas | 11 | #314 | #714 |
| New York | 54 | #316 | #400 |
| Oklahoma | 13 | #331 | — |
| Wisconsin | 16 | #339 | — |
| West Virginia | 5 | #352 | — |
| California | 91 | #362 | #690 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #364 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 29 | #383 | #571 |
| Iowa | 8 | #424 | — |
| Tennessee | 19 | #424 | #1,199 |
| Oregon | 8 | #468 | — |
| Missouri | 13 | #471 | — |
| Arkansas | 7 | #475 | — |
| Kentucky | 9 | #489 | — |
| Minnesota | 11 | #493 | — |
| Indiana | 14 | #506 | — |
| Massachusetts | 11 | #507 | #506 |
| Colorado | 10 | #572 | — |
| Washington | 10 | #660 | #909 |
| Utah | 5 | #795 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,063 | #288 | — | — |
| 2024 | 1,141 | #278 | 5 | #13,573 |
| 2023 | 1,155 | #271 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,299 | #235 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,052 | #303 | 5 | #13,429 |
| 2020 | 1,106 | #288 | — | — |
| 2019 | 876 | #360 | — | — |
| 2018 | 722 | #445 | — | — |
| 2017 | 539 | #563 | — | — |
| 2016 | 454 | #648 | — | — |
| 2015 | 429 | #667 | — | — |
| 2014 | 279 | #960 | — | — |
| 2013 | 227 | #1,089 | — | — |
| 2012 | 225 | #1,102 | — | — |
| 2011 | 243 | #1,028 | — | — |
| 2010 | 162 | #1,416 | — | — |
| 2009 | 119 | #1,818 | — | — |
| 2008 | 89 | #2,228 | — | — |
| 2007 | 105 | #1,967 | — | — |
| 2006 | 96 | #2,060 | — | — |
| 2005 | 71 | #2,475 | — | — |
| 2004 | 47 | #3,248 | — | — |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,548 | — | — |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,715 | — | — |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,232 | — | — |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,866 | — | — |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,563 | — | — |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,401 | — | — |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,154 | — | — |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,615 | — | — |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,202 | — | — |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,074 | — | — |
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).