Mehlani
#4,238 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mehlani has been given to 482 babies in the U.S. since 2016. In 2025 it ranked #4,238 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 85 recorded.
Babies named Mehlani, 2025
1 in 97,500
Mehlani 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Mehlani?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 97,500
- 34 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 47,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #4,238
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 67,586 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mehlani 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 67,586 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mehlani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mehlanis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mehlani was born before 2021 — so the typical Mehlani is around 4 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 74.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 482
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 74.5% of all recorded uses (359).
Is Mehlani 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
- −1,080
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,697
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 40.0%
- Peak was 2023 (85)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.8% average annual change
Spellings of Mehlani
Mehlani is not the most common spelling — Melanie is, with 63.8% against Mehlani's 0.12%.
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 Mehlani is used
Across 2016–2025, Mehlani was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 58,084 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in 25,000
- 2Ohio1 in 25,000
- 3Alabama1 in 33,333
- 4Florida1 in 33,333
- 5Texas1 in 50,000
- 6North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 7New York1 in 100,000
- 8Pennsylvania1 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.
Mehlani by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Mehlani
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mehlani
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.