Maelani

#1,548 for girls in 2025, 136 births

Peak · girls
2025 · 136 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
812
since 1999

Maelani over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Maelani has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201999girlsat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#1,548136
2024#1,598131
2023#1,865107
2022#2,06893
2021#2,84859
2020#3,39945
2019#3,92337
2018#4,88927
2017#4,92227
2016#7,23016
2015#5,12726
2014#9,51711
2013#11,0009
2012#12,1998
2011#9,15012
2010#16,9925
2009#11,4599
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2006#12,4208
2005#11,8348
2004#10,6909
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2000#8,53411
1999#14,4115
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First appearance
1999

The first year at least five girls were named Maelani! It came in at #14,411, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 2002–2003, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Maelani is popular in 1999

No state had 5 or more girls named Maelani in 1999, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Maelani
Momentum · girls
Rising
  • 50 spots since 2024 (#1,598 → #1,548)
  • 1,851 spots since 2020 (#3,399 → #1,548)
  • 3,579 spots since 2015 (#5,127 → #1,548)
Rise & fade · girls
26 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1999
  • Peaked 2025 at #1,548 (136 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 11,818
  • Highest: 1 in 11,818 girls born in 2025 were named Maelani (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 2020s
  • 70.3% of all girls named Maelani (571) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s5#14,411 (1999)#14,411
2000s58#8,534 (2000)#11,942
2010s178#3,923 (2019)#8,495
2020s571#1,548 (2025)#2,221

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.

Maelani in 1999

girls
#14,411
5 births · 1 in 354,765 girls

Top girls' names in 1999

  1. #1Emily26,542
  2. #2Hannah21,679
  3. #3Alexis19,237
  4. #4Sarah19,119
  5. #5Samantha19,044
  6. #6Ashley18,136
  7. #7Madison18,054
  8. #8Taylor16,906
  9. #9Jessica16,350
  10. #10Elizabeth15,350
  11. #14,411Maelani5
More about 1999

girls

1,773,823 girls got a published name in 1999; 1 in 354,765 of them was named Maelani, which outranked 15.0% of the 16,947 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Maelani
  1. #12,688Zuriel6
  2. #12,688Zyana6
  3. #12,688Zyia6
  4. #14,411Maelani5
  5. #14,411Aalijah5
  6. #14,411Aania5
  7. #14,411Aanya5

Tied with 2,536 names at #14,411; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1998
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,407Citlalli#2,338 → #931
  2. ↑ 1,329Noelia#2,048 → #719
  3. ↑ 1,060Amaya#1,458 → #398
  4. ↑ 864Kyara#1,789 → #925
  5. ↑ 604Journey#1,557 → #953
Fallers
  1. ↓ 579Erykah#779 → #1,358
  2. ↓ 417Tea#747 → #1,164
  3. ↓ 415Tasia#800 → #1,215
  4. ↓ 406Monika#930 → #1,336
  5. ↓ 357Chase#952 → #1,309

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1999 →