Mahlani
#3,234 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mahlani has been given to 457 babies in the U.S. since 2011. In 2025 it ranked #3,234 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 70 recorded.
Babies named Mahlani, 2025
1 in 67,700
Mahlani 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Mahlani?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 67,700
- 49 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 32,800
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #3,234
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 46,897 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mahlani 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 46,897 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mahlani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mahlanis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mahlani was born before 2021 — so the typical Mahlani is around 4 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 73.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 457
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 73.5% of all recorded uses (336).
Is Mahlani 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
- −270
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +22
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +10,693
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 7.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 70.0%
- Peak was 2023 (70)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 42.1% average annual change
Spellings of Mahlani
Mahlani is not the most common spelling — Alani is, with 12.3% against Mahlani's 0.30%.
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 Mahlani is used
Across 2016–2025, Mahlani was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 50,332 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 16,667
- 2Georgia1 in 25,000
- 3North Carolina1 in 33,333
- 4Virginia1 in 33,333
- 5Florida1 in 50,000
- 6Texas1 in 50,000
- 7Illinois1 in 100,000
- 8New York1 in 100,000
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.
Mahlani by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Mahlani
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mahlani
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.