Malanie
Malanie was given to 19 girls in 2025, #6,246 among girls’ names; 901 Americans have been recorded with it since 1958 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Malanie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Malanie?
#6,246 among girls’ names, 2025
Malanie rose from #6,622 in 2015 to #6,246 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 10.6 to 11.8 per million.
38 babies in 2018, the peak
Malanie peaked in 2018, when 38 girls were given it, #3,896 among girls’ names. The 19 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,246 | 11.8 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,844 | 17.3 |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,074 | 16.2 |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,740 | 17.7 |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,375 | 19.5 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,975 | 22.3 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,731 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,896 | 22.3 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,136 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,215 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,622 | 10.6 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,779 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,613 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,057 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,514 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,803 | 10.7 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,217 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,383 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,347 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,711 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,656 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,663 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,471 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,291 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,640 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,850 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,991 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,580 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,400 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,925 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,441 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,706 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,348 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,934 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,382 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,484 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,123 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,413 | 6.4 |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,992 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,108 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,595 | 9.6 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,640 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,858 | 9.0 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,158 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,286 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,407 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,153 | 6.5 |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,057 | 16.4 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,872 | 11.7 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,032 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,884 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,218 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,815 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,654 | 6.9 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,609 | 6.5 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,702 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,803 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,858 | 7.1 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,596 | 4.0 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,737 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,285 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,834 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Malanie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Malanie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Malanie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Malanie, and how old are they?
An estimated 876 Americans named Malanie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 8 and 44. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 566 people named Malanie (561 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 722 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Malanie?
Malanie is a less common spelling of Malani: SSA has recorded 901 Malanie and 7,117 Malani since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 13,208 babies since 1880, Malanie is the fifth most given (6.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 1,281 babies (1.5%), 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 Malanie
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 Malanie and names like it
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