Malani
#374 for girls in 2025, 822 births · Last seen for boys in 2022 at #12,330
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 943 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,112since 1977
Malani over time
Rank among girls' names. Malani has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #374 | 822 | — | |
| 2024 | #330 | 943 | — | |
| 2023 | #350 | 870 | — | |
| 2022 | #397 | 790 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #420 | 750 | — | |
| 2020 | #494 | 618 | — | |
| 2019 | #670 | 433 | — | |
| 2018 | #743 | 373 | — | |
| 2017 | #920 | 290 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,188 | 210 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,247 | 196 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,940 | 103 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,236 | 83 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,760 | 117 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,909 | 104 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,589 | 70 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,966 | 58 | — | |
| 2008 | #4,647 | 32 | — | |
| 2007 | #4,380 | 34 | — | |
| 2006 | #3,734 | 41 | — | |
| 2005 | #3,212 | 48 | — | |
| 2004 | #6,216 | 19 | — | |
| 2003 | #5,092 | 24 | — | |
| 2002 | #7,444 | 14 | — | |
| 2001 | #8,758 | 11 | — | |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | — | |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | — | |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 | — | |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | — | |
| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 | — | |
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| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | — | |
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| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | — | |
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| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Malani! It came in at #8,444, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1978–1986, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Malani is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Florida#653 · 1 in 3,468
- Georgia#702 · 1 in 3,432
- Tennessee#759 · 1 in 3,880
- Illinois#811 · 1 in 4,433
- New Jersey#838 · 1 in 4,572
Best ever in a state: #63 in Louisiana, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | #653 | 25 | 1 in 3,468 |
| Georgia | #702 | 14 | 1 in 3,432 |
| Tennessee | #759 | 8 | 1 in 3,880 |
| Illinois | #811 | 13 | 1 in 4,433 |
| New Jersey | #838 | 8 | 1 in 4,572 |
| North Carolina | #847 | 10 | 1 in 4,531 |
| Louisiana | #852 | 5 | 1 in 4,197 |
| Wisconsin | #867 | 5 | 1 in 4,660 |
| Pennsylvania | #876 | 10 | 1 in 5,185 |
| Maryland | #894 | 5 | 1 in 4,808 |
| Virginia | #917 | 7 | 1 in 5,305 |
| New York | #1,028 | 15 | 1 in 5,989 |
| Indiana | #1,058 | 5 | 1 in 6,059 |
| Ohio | #1,282 | 6 | 1 in 8,678 |
| California | #1,388 | 20 | 1 in 10,186 |
| Texas | #1,404 | 17 | 1 in 9,841 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Malani
- 44 spots since 2024 (#330 → #374)
- 120 spots since 2020 (#494 → #374)
- 873 spots since 2015 (#1,247 → #374)
- Biggest jump: 268 spots in 2017 (#1,188 → #920)
- Biggest drop: 44 spots in 2025 (#330 → #374)
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 2024 at #330 (943 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 9 yrs · run 2017–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,718 girls born in 2024 were named Malani (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,955 girls born in 2025 (0.05%)
- 67.4% of all girls named Malani (4,793) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 6 | #8,444 (1977) | #8,444 |
| 1980s | 13 | #7,987 (1987) | #9,199 |
| 1990s | 34 | #8,584 (1998) | #11,795 |
| 2000s | 287 | #2,966 (2009) | #5,960 |
| 2010s | 1,979 | #670 (2019) | #1,520 |
| 2020s | 4,793 | #330 (2024) | #394 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Malani in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 8,438 of them was named Malani, which outranked 93.7% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).