Malana
Malana was given to 16 girls in 2025, #7,017 among girls’ names; 1,210 Americans have been recorded with it since 1953 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,190 Americans named Malana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 12 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Malana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Malana?
#7,017 among girls’ names, 2025
Malana fell from #5,767 in 2015 to #7,017 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.9 to 10.0 per million.
67 babies in 2007, the peak
Malana peaked in 2007, when 67 girls were given it, #2,737 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,017 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,831 | 10.5 |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,708 | 18.1 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,539 | 18.9 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,501 | 14.0 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,114 | 15.5 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,399 | 14.3 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,301 | 19.4 |
| 2017 | 35 | #4,199 | 20.3 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,406 | 14.1 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,767 | 12.9 |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,322 | 19.0 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,094 | 15.4 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,088 | 21.0 |
| 2011 | 42 | #3,701 | 23.9 |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,561 | 18.0 |
| 2009 | 42 | #3,778 | 22.9 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,904 | 21.7 |
| 2007 | 67 | #2,737 | 34.8 |
| 2006 | 52 | #3,205 | 27.4 |
| 2005 | 45 | #3,389 | 24.4 |
| 2004 | 51 | #3,050 | 27.8 |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,079 | 18.1 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,237 | 16.7 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,978 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,080 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,392 | 14.7 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,718 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,112 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,906 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,840 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,145 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,139 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,826 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,834 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,933 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,667 | 2.7 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,393 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,324 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,447 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,599 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,907 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,837 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,140 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,285 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,381 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,853 | 12.4 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,372 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,478 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,893 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,847 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,971 | 4.6 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,271 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,154 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,659 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,108 | 4.7 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,135 | 2.8 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,291 | 3.1 |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,015 | 4.0 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,857 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Malana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Malana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Malana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Malana, and how old are they?
1,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,210 Americans ever recorded as Malana. The median Malana alive today is 19 years old; half are between 12 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 986 people named Malana (985 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,057 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 17 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 137 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 129 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 563 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 340 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 21,094 babies since 1880, Malana is the fifth most given (5.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 1,207 babies (1.3%), the seventh 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 Malana
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 Malana and names like it
- Compare Malana and MalaniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMalana peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Malana since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Malana.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Malana alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.