Malania
Malania was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,541 among girls’ names; 321 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Malania by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Malania?
#11,541 among girls’ names, 2025
Malania fell from #5,596 in 2015 to #11,541 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 13.4 to 5.0 per million.
34 babies in 2012, the peak
Malania peaked in 2012, when 34 girls were given it, #4,350 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,541 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,758 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,800 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,072 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,602 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,241 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,576 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,964 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,275 | 14.5 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,320 | 11.3 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #5,596 | 13.4 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,616 | 10.6 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,395 | 11.4 |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,350 | 19.3 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,430 | 18.8 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,145 | 8.4 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,216 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,375 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,074 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,655 | 7.0 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,905 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Malania a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Malania has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Malania: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Malania, and how old are they?
An estimated 319 Americans named Malania and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 9 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 296 people named Malania (294 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 272 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above 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 20,500 babies since 1880, Malania is the eighth most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 1,201 babies (<1%), again the eighth 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 Malania
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 Malania and names like it
- Compare Malania and MalaniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMalania peaked in 2012.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Malania since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Malania.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Malania alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.