Maleni
#2,600 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Maleni has been given to 963 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #2,600 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 174 recorded.
Babies named Maleni, 2025
1 in 49,500
Maleni 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Maleni?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 49,500
- 67 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 24,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,600
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 34,298 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Maleni 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 34,298 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maleni. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Malenis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Maleni was born before 2020 — so the typical Maleni is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 51.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 86.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 963
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 51.2% of all recorded uses (493).
Is Maleni 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
- +555
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,015
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +6,696
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 5.58×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 38.5%
- Peak was 2019 (174)
- Years since peak
- 6
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 87.7% average annual change
Spellings of Maleni
Maleni is not the most common spelling — Marlene is, with 35.9% against Maleni's 0.26%.
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 Maleni is used
Across 2016–2025, Maleni was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 17,409 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Arizona1 in 9,091
- 2Texas1 in 10,000
- 3California1 in 12,500
- 4Pennsylvania1 in 20,000
- 5Florida1 in 25,000
- 6Georgia1 in 33,333
- 7New Jersey1 in 33,333
- 8Washington1 in 33,333
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.
Maleni around the world
Where Maleni ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia2005–2005#775in 2005
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Maleni by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Maleni
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Maleni
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.