Maleny
Maleny was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,383 among girls’ names; 536 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 Maleny by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maleny?
#16,383 among girls’ names, 2025
Maleny fell from #4,458 in 2015 to #16,383 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 17.9 to 3.1 per million.
58 babies in 1993, the peak
Maleny peaked in 1993, when 58 girls were given it, #2,251 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,383 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,822 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,889 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,075 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,328 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,302 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,578 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 14 | #8,005 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,441 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,973 | 21.4 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #4,458 | 17.9 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,931 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,876 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,880 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,930 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,099 | 12.4 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,462 | 11.4 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,714 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,833 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,075 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,657 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,274 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,141 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,618 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,818 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,117 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,520 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,468 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,778 | 9.8 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,908 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,883 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,373 | 10.1 |
| 1993 | 58 | #2,251 | 32.1 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,321 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,835 | 8.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maleny a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maleny has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maleny: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maleny, and how old are they?
An estimated 530 Americans named Maleny and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 10 and 30. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 527 people named Maleny (523 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 472 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Maleny born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 108 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| California | 89 | not ranked | 1.2× |
Where Maleny is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maleny is most over-represented in Texas: since 1991 it was given 2.0 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 Maleny 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 20,449 babies since 1880, Maleny is the eighth most given (2.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 1,113 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 Maleny
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 Maleny and names like it
- Compare Maleny and MalaniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMaleny peaked in 1993.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maleny since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Maleny.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Maleny alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.