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Malini

Girls' name

A female florist, through मालिनी

Malini has been given to 327 babies in the U.S. since 1973. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2004, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Malini, 2024

1 in 478,000

Malini over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Malini: meaning, origin, and history

A female florist, through मालिनी

Sanskrit

What Malini means

Malini belongs to the name family reached through Malini → मालिनी. Its meaning is “a female florist”.

Origin, language, and formation

Malini is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Malini comes through Sanskrit मालिनी.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include मालिनी.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 327 girls were recorded with the name Malini between 1973 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2004; its best national rank was #5,798 in 1975.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Malini?

Malini had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Malini sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Malini. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Malinis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Malini was born before 2002 — so the typical Malini is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
33.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
327
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 33.6% of all recorded uses (110).

Is Malini 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2004 (18)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
48.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,798
1975

Spellings of Malini

Malini is not the most common spelling — Maxine is, with 26.6% against Malini's 0.08%.

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 Malini is used

Across 1910–2025, Malini was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

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. Malini has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Malini around the world

Where Malini 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.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2024
    #4,844
    in 2024
  • France
    1996–1996
    #3,678
    in 1996
  • South Australia
    1978–1980
    #440
    in 1980

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Malini by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,798
1975
Peak year
2004
18 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
327
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Malini

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

MalaakMaleiniMaloneMalyahMalkiaMalekaMalaiaMalleyMaloniMalenyMaleyaMalibuMaleiahMalaylaMaleeMalaniaMaloriMaleehaMalachiMalyaMalieMaleekaMaleighMaleni

Sibling names for Malini

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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