Maleni
Maleni was given to 67 girls in 2025, #2,600 among girls’ names; 963 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maleni by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maleni?
#2,600 among girls’ names, 2025
Maleni rose from #9,296 in 2015 to #2,600 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.7 to 41.7 per million.
174 babies in 2019, the peak
Maleni peaked in 2019, when 174 girls were given it, #1,317 among girls’ names. The 67 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 67 | #2,600 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 51 | #3,155 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 57 | #2,960 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 84 | #2,242 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 101 | #1,951 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 133 | #1,585 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 174 | #1,317 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 64 | #2,702 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,255 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,572 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #9,296 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,721 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,519 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,801 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,401 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,882 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,364 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,928 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,781 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,036 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,088 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,644 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,853 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,217 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,609 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,503 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,323 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,143 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,593 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,636 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,479 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,743 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maleni a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maleni has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maleni: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maleni, and how old are they?
An estimated 955 Americans named Maleni and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 4 and 8. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 472 people named Maleni (470 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 499 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% 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).
Where are babies named Maleni born?
The states with the most babies named Maleni are California, Texas and Florida, with 86% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 16 | #1,456 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 15 | #1,592 | 1.7× |
| Florida | 6 | #2,056 | 0.5× |
| New York | 6 | #1,976 | 0.3× |
Where Maleni is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maleni is most over-represented in Texas: since 1991 it was given 1.7 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 Maleni 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 20,900 babies since 1880, Maleni is the seventh most given (4.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 67 of their 1,204 babies (5.6%), the fifth 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 Maleni
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 Maleni and names like it
- Compare Maleni and MalaniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMaleni peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maleni since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Maleni.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Maleni alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.