Mailani
Mailani was given to 85 girls in 2025, #2,185 among girls’ names; 711 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mailani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mailani?
#2,185 among girls’ names, 2025
Mailani rose from #4,270 in 2015 to #2,185 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 19.0 to 52.9 per million.
98 babies in 2023, the peak
Mailani peaked in 2023, when 98 girls were given it, #2,014 among girls’ names. The 85 births of 2025 are 87% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 85 | #2,185 | 52.9 |
| 2024 | 55 | #3,000 | 33.9 |
| 2023 | 98 | #2,014 | 61.1 |
| 2022 | 52 | #3,146 | 31.7 |
| 2021 | 56 | #2,983 | 34.1 |
| 2020 | 39 | #3,759 | 24.1 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,730 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 35 | #4,120 | 20.6 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,132 | 15.1 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,797 | 16.4 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | #4,270 | 19.0 |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,228 | 19.6 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,406 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,659 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,508 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,212 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,079 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,854 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,555 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,956 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,907 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,751 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,445 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,744 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,627 | 4.4 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,894 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,886 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mailani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mailani has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mailani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mailani, and how old are they?
An estimated 706 Americans named Mailani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 11. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 322 people named Mailani (318 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 334 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 13,208 babies since 1880, Mailani is the seventh most given (5.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 85 of their 1,281 babies (6.6%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mailani
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Mailani and names like it
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