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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | — | |
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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.
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 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 2,616 of them was named Malani, which outranked 97.2% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.