Milani
Milani was given to 1,063 girls in 2025, #288 among girls’ names; 11,656 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,600 Americans named Milani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 9.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Milani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Milani mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Milani is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Milani?
#288 among girls’ names, 2025
Milani rose from #667 in 2015 to #288 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.24 to 0.66 per 1,000.
1,299 babies in 2022, the peak
Milani peaked in 2022, when 1,299 girls were given it, #235 among girls’ names. The 1,063 births of 2025 are 82% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,063 | #288 | 0.66 |
| 2024 | 1,141 | #278 | 0.70 |
| 2023 | 1,155 | #271 | 0.72 |
| 2022 | 1,299 | #235 | 0.79 |
| 2021 | 1,052 | #303 | 0.64 |
| 2020 | 1,106 | #288 | 0.68 |
| 2019 | 876 | #360 | 0.52 |
| 2018 | 722 | #445 | 0.42 |
| 2017 | 539 | #563 | 0.31 |
| 2016 | 454 | #648 | 0.26 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 429 | #667 | 0.24 |
| 2014 | 279 | #960 | 0.16 |
| 2013 | 227 | #1,089 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 225 | #1,102 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 243 | #1,028 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | 162 | #1,416 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 119 | #1,818 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 89 | #2,228 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 105 | #1,967 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 96 | #2,060 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 71 | #2,471 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 47 | #3,244 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,543 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,711 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,227 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,861 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,557 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,395 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,149 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,610 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,196 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,067 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Milani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Milani has been given almost only to girls: 10 boys in 32 years of records.
Girls and boys named Milani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Milani, and how old are they?
11,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 11,656 Americans ever recorded as Milani. The median Milani alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 9.
The 2020 Census counted 3,773 people named Milani (3,759 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,076 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% 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 | 25 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,270 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 10,300 |
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 Milani born?
The states with the most babies named Milani are Texas, Florida and California, with 30% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 130 | #265 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 94 | #199 | 1.4× |
| California | 91 | #362 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 77 | #128 | 1.5× |
| New York | 54 | #316 | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 46 | #218 | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 44 | #253 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 44 | #256 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 35 | #237 | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 30 | #301 | 0.8× |
Where Milani is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Milani is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1991 it was given 1.5 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 Milani 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 32,363 babies since 1880, Milani is the most given (36% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,063 of their 1,997 babies (53%), again the 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 Milani
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 Milani and names like it
- Compare Milani and MilenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMilani peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Milani since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Milani.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Milani alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.