Melani Girl
How popular is Melani?
#1,053 girl name in 2025
234 baby girls were named Melani in the US in 2025, making it the 1053rd most popular girl name.
Melani popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,053 for girls (▼ 44 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 234 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+95% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,743 in 2015, #989 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2020 (258 girls) |
| Highest rank | #989 in 2020 |
| First recorded | 1947 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Melani counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Melanie family of names ranked #102 for girls in 2025 (#96 the year before), with 3,176 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Melanie | 2,074 | 65% |
| Melany | 779 | 25% |
| Melani | 234 | 7% |
| Mehlani | 34 | 1% |
| Melannie | 18 | 1% |
| Melanny | 27 | 1% |
| Melahni | 5 | 0% |
| Mellanie | 5 | 0% |
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 Melani is most popular
Babies named Melani per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Illinois: 0.3 per 1,000 (59 girls)
- Georgia: 0.3 per 1,000 (57 girls)
- Florida: 0.2 per 1,000 (94 girls)
- North Carolina: 0.2 per 1,000 (45 girls)
- Nebraska: 0.2 per 1,000 (7 girls)
Melani by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 20 | #3,891 |
| 1950s | 158 | #1,950 |
| 1960s | 367 | #1,707 |
| 1970s | 511 | #1,526 |
| 1980s | 352 | #1,766 |
| 1990s | 351 | #2,637 |
| 2000s | 1,245 | #1,307 |
| 2010s | 1,486 | #1,073 |
| 2020s | 1,422 | #989 |
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Questions
- Is Melani a boy or girl name?
- Melani is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Melani were girls.
- How popular is the name Melani?
- 234 baby girls were named Melani in the US in 2025, making it the 1053rd most popular girl name.
- When was Melani most popular?
- Melani peaked in 2020, when 258 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #989 in 2020.
- How many people are named Melani?
- 5,912 babies have been named Melani in the US since 1880. We estimate about 5,776 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 16.
- Where is Melani most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Melani was most common in Illinois, at 0.3 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.