Malani
Malani was given to 822 girls in 2025, #374 among girls’ names; 7,117 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,070 Americans named Malani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 8.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Malani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Malani?
#374 among girls’ names, 2025
Malani rose from #1,252 in 2015 to #374 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.11 to 0.51 per 1,000.
943 babies in 2024, the peak
Malani peaked in 2024, when 943 girls were given it, #330 among girls’ names. The 822 births of 2025 are 87% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 822 | #374 | 0.51 |
| 2024 | 943 | #330 | 0.58 |
| 2023 | 870 | #350 | 0.54 |
| 2022 | 790 | #397 | 0.48 |
| 2021 | 750 | #422 | 0.46 |
| 2020 | 618 | #494 | 0.38 |
| 2019 | 433 | #670 | 0.26 |
| 2018 | 373 | #743 | 0.22 |
| 2017 | 290 | #920 | 0.17 |
| 2016 | 210 | #1,189 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 196 | #1,252 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 103 | #1,946 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 83 | #2,250 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 117 | #1,771 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 104 | #1,924 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 70 | #2,603 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 58 | #2,986 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,720 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,432 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,767 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 48 | #3,239 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,396 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,181 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,670 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,125 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,286 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,904 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,008 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,179 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,263 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,836 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,443 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,404 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,159 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Malani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Malani has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 34 years of records.
Girls and boys named Malani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Malani, and how old are they?
7,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 7,117 Americans ever recorded as Malani. The median Malani alive today is 5 years old; half are between 3 and 8.
The 2020 Census counted 1,897 people named Malani (1,877 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,459 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 6 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 26 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 593 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,450 |
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).
Where are babies named Malani born?
The states with the most babies named Malani are Texas, Florida and Louisiana, with 30% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 98 | #355 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 83 | #227 | 1.5× |
| Louisiana | 52 | #63 | 2.2× |
| Georgia | 50 | #213 | 1.9× |
| North Carolina | 46 | #237 | 1.7× |
| Illinois | 39 | #274 | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 39 | #285 | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 33 | #252 | 1.1× |
| California | 31 | #927 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 29 | #380 | 1.1× |
Where Malani is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Malani is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1977 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Malani with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 21,080 babies since 1880, Malani is the most given (34% of them). In 2025 it was given to 822 of their 1,212 babies (68%), again the most given.
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 Malani
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 Malani and names like it
- Compare Malani and MalinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMalani peaked in 2024.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Malani since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Malani.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Malani alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.