Malani Girl
How popular is Malani?
#374 girl name in 2025
822 baby girls were named Malani in the US in 2025, making it the 374th most popular girl name.
Malani popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #374 for girls (▼ 44 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 822 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+319% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,247 in 2015, #494 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2024 (943 girls) |
| Highest rank | #330 in 2024 |
| First recorded | 1977 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.6% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Malani counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Malani family of names ranked #289 for girls in 2025 (#274 the year before), with 1,139 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Malani | 822 | 72% |
| Maylani | 96 | 8% |
| Mailani | 85 | 7% |
| Mahlani | 49 | 4% |
| Malanie | 19 | 2% |
| Malahni | 20 | 2% |
| Malanni | 14 | 1% |
| Maylanie | 6 | 1% |
| Mailany | 23 | 2% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Malani is most popular
Babies named Malani per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Mississippi: 2.2 per 1,000 (101 girls)
- Louisiana: 2.1 per 1,000 (188 girls)
- South Carolina: 1.6 per 1,000 (146 girls)
- Delaware: 1.6 per 1,000 (18 girls)
- Georgia: 1.4 per 1,000 (321 girls)
Malani by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 6 | #8,442 |
| 1980s | 13 | #7,982 |
| 1990s | 34 | #8,579 |
| 2000s | 287 | #2,965 |
| 2010s | 1,979 | #670 |
| 2020s | 4,793 | #330 |
Girl names about as popular as Malani
Questions
- Is Malani a boy or girl name?
- Malani is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Malani were girls.
- How popular is the name Malani?
- 822 baby girls were named Malani in the US in 2025, making it the 374th most popular girl name.
- When was Malani most popular?
- Malani peaked in 2024, when 943 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #330 in 2024.
- How many people are named Malani?
- 7,117 babies have been named Malani in the US since 1880. We estimate about 7,093 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 5.
- Where is Malani most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Malani was most common in Mississippi, at 2.2 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.