Meilani
#590 for girls in 2025, 498 births
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 498 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,971since 1982
Meilani over time
Rank among girls' names. Meilani has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #590 | 498 |
| 2024 | #813 | 341 |
| 2023 | #845 | 320 |
| 2022 | #952 | 284 |
| 2021 | #1,091 | 227 |
| 2020 | #888 | 300 |
| 2019 | #883 | 305 |
| 2018 | #816 | 332 |
| 2017 | #907 | 295 |
| 2016 | #1,005 | 263 |
| 2015 | #946 | 287 |
| 2014 | #2,781 | 62 |
| 2013 | #6,462 | 19 |
| 2012 | #5,895 | 22 |
| 2011 | #5,358 | 25 |
| 2010 | #5,602 | 24 |
| 2009 | #4,677 | 31 |
| 2008 | #5,279 | 27 |
| 2007 | #5,709 | 24 |
| 2006 | #6,592 | 19 |
| 2005 | #4,267 | 32 |
| 2004 | #5,208 | 24 |
| 2003 | #6,299 | 18 |
| 2002 | #8,280 | 12 |
| 2001 | #5,822 | 19 |
| 2000 | #5,937 | 18 |
| 1999 | #8,223 | 11 |
| 1998 | #6,719 | 14 |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 |
| 1996 | #8,132 | 10 |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 |
| 1994 | #8,804 | 9 |
| 1993 | #6,264 | 14 |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 |
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| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 |
| 1988 | #4,496 | 19 |
| 1987 | #5,312 | 14 |
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| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 |
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| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Meilani! It came in at #10,517, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1982–1986, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Meilani is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Arizona#401 · 1 in 1,769
- Nevada#533 · 1 in 2,167
- Illinois#542 · 1 in 2,645
- California#627 · 1 in 3,375
- Florida#701 · 1 in 3,907
Best ever in a state: #151 in New Mexico, 2018.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | #401 | 17 | 1 in 1,769 |
| Nevada | #533 | 5 | 1 in 2,167 |
| Illinois | #542 | 21 | 1 in 2,645 |
| California | #627 | 58 | 1 in 3,375 |
| Florida | #701 | 22 | 1 in 3,907 |
| Wisconsin | #745 | 6 | 1 in 3,763 |
| Colorado | #778 | 6 | 1 in 3,771 |
| Alabama | #796 | 5 | 1 in 3,835 |
| Texas | #816 | 35 | 1 in 4,568 |
| New York | #844 | 19 | 1 in 4,631 |
| Massachusetts | #845 | 5 | 1 in 5,040 |
| Michigan | #908 | 8 | 1 in 5,158 |
| Virginia | #942 | 7 | 1 in 5,147 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,022 | 8 | 1 in 6,393 |
| Indiana | #1,042 | 5 | 1 in 6,020 |
| New Jersey | #1,148 | 5 | 1 in 7,193 |
| Georgia | #1,165 | 7 | 1 in 6,732 |
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See more about Meilani
- 223 spots since 2024 (#813 → #590)
- 298 spots since 2020 (#888 → #590)
- 356 spots since 2015 (#946 → #590)
- Biggest jump: 1,835 spots in 2015 (#2,781 → #946)
- Biggest drop: 203 spots in 2021 (#888 → #1,091)
- Debuted 1982
- Peaked 2025 at #590 (498 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 9 yrs · run 2017–2020
- Highest: 1 in 3,227 girls born in 2025 were named Meilani (0.03%)
- 49.6% of all girls named Meilani (1,970) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 52 | #4,496 (1988) | #7,757 |
| 1990s | 91 | #6,264 (1993) | #8,482 |
| 2000s | 224 | #4,267 (2005) | #5,807 |
| 2010s | 1,634 | #816 (2018) | #3,066 |
| 2020s | 1,970 | #590 (2025) | #863 |
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.
Meilani in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 5,852 of them was named Meilani, which outranked 95.1% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #903Novalee297
- #905Hadleigh296
- #905Iliana296
- #907Meilani295
- #907Avalyn295
- #907Taliyah295
- #910Blaire294
- #910Brenda294
- #910Luella294
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.