Meilani
Meilani was given to 498 girls in 2025, #591 among girls’ names; 3,971 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,940 Americans named Meilani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 10.
Meilani climbed 223 places in 2025, the #24 climb among the girls’ top 1,000.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Meilani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Meilani mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Meilani is “a female given name from Hawaiian.”
Modern American coinage, rhyming with Leilani. Can be interpreted as Hawaiian Mei + lani “heavenly May”.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Meilani?
#591 among girls’ names, 2025
Meilani rose from #947 in 2015 to #591 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.16 to 0.31 per 1,000.
498 babies in 2025, the peak
Meilani peaked in 2025, when 498 girls were given it, #591 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 341 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 498 | #591 | 0.31 |
| 2024 | 341 | #814 | 0.21 |
| 2023 | 320 | #845 | 0.20 |
| 2022 | 284 | #952 | 0.17 |
| 2021 | 227 | #1,094 | 0.14 |
| 2020 | 300 | #889 | 0.19 |
| 2019 | 305 | #883 | 0.18 |
| 2018 | 332 | #818 | 0.20 |
| 2017 | 295 | #908 | 0.17 |
| 2016 | 263 | #1,008 | 0.15 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 287 | #947 | 0.16 |
| 2014 | 62 | #2,797 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,636 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,045 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,484 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,732 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,769 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,388 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,835 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,757 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,330 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,325 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,483 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,640 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,988 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,129 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,594 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,957 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,137 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,597 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,174 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,328 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,488 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,110 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,340 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,485 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,590 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,489 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,513 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,613 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Meilani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Meilani has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Meilani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Meilani, and how old are they?
3,940 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,971 Americans ever recorded as Meilani. The median Meilani alive today is 7 years old; half are between 3 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 1,515 people named Meilani (1,515 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,062 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 104 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 328 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,510 |
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 Meilani born?
The states with the most babies named Meilani are California, Texas and Georgia, with 31% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 56 | #582 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 55 | #575 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 31 | #360 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 27 | #643 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 25 | #451 | 0.7× |
| New York | 21 | #778 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | #508 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 19 | #553 | 0.5× |
| Arizona | 18 | #383 | 1.7× |
| South Carolina | 16 | #324 | 0.4× |
Where Meilani is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Meilani is most over-represented in Arizona: since 1982 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 Meilani 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 296,537 babies since 1880, Meilani is the fourth most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 498 of their 3,830 babies (13%), the third 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 Meilani
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 Meilani and names like it
- Compare Meilani and MelanieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMeilani peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Meilani since 1910.
- Hawaiian namesWiktionary’s origin for Meilani: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Meilani.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Meilani alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.