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Mulan: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 72 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,464 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,464 in 2020; #2,475 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mulan in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,475 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #2,464.
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Mulan: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 72 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,464 in 2020 · most girls in one year: 72 (2025).
In 2025, 72 US girls were named Mulan, making it the 2,475th most common girls’ name of the year, up 74 places from #2,549 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 70 girls named Mulan in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,464, reached in 2020. The most girls given the name in a single year was 72, in 2025. For comparison, it was #5,784 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mulan in 26 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1998 with 16 babies. In all, 748 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 378 babies named Mulan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 543 US girls were named Mulan; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 72. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,323 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mulan ranked highest in Virginia in 2025, at #1,139 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.
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US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 6 | #1,139 | — |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,168 | — |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,355 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,549 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,610 | — |
| New York | 5 | #2,315 | — |
| California | 5 | #3,392 | #3,803 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72 | #2,475 | — | — |
| 2024 | 70 | #2,549 | — | — |
| 2023 | 56 | #3,005 | — | — |
| 2022 | 59 | #2,887 | — | — |
| 2021 | 50 | #3,243 | — | — |
| 2020 | 71 | #2,464 | — | — |
| 2019 | 50 | #3,209 | — | — |
| 2018 | 54 | #3,035 | — | — |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,777 | — | — |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,496 | — | — |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,784 | — | — |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,266 | — | — |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,104 | — | — |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,843 | — | — |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,004 | — | — |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,257 | — | — |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,448 | — | — |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,438 | — | — |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,605 | — | — |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,189 | — | — |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,328 | — | — |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,847 | — | — |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,717 | — | — |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,438 | — | — |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,254 | 5 | #11,056 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,282 | — | — |
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).