Maelani
#1,553 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Maelani has been given to 812 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #1,553 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 136 recorded.
Babies named Maelani, 2025
1 in 24,400
Maelani over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Maelani?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 24,400
- 136 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 11,800
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,553
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 16,897 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Maelani sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 16,897 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maelani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Maelanis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Maelani was born before 2022 — so the typical Maelani is around 3 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 70.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 98.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 812
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 70.3% of all recorded uses (571).
Is Maelani rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +54
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,877
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +3,679
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 5.23×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (136)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 38.6% average annual change
Spellings of Maelani
Maelani is not the most common spelling — Melanie is, with 58.8% against Maelani's 0.18%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Maelani is used
Across 2016–2025, Maelani was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 27,071 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 in 16,667
- 2Connecticut1 in 20,000
- 3Indiana1 in 20,000
- 4Arizona1 in 25,000
- 5California1 in 25,000
- 6Massachusetts1 in 25,000
- 7North Carolina1 in 25,000
- 8Pennsylvania1 in 25,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.
Maelani by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Maelani
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Maelani
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.