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Meilani

#591 in 2025Girls' name

Maia's month, through Mei

Meilani has been given to 3,971 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #591 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 498 recorded.

Babies named Meilani, 2025

1 in 6,660

Meilani over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Meilani: meaning, origin, and history

Maia's month, through Mei

Hawaiian

What Meilani means

Meilani belongs to the name family reached through Meilani → Mei → May. Its meaning is “Maia's month”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Modern American coinage, rhyming with Leilani. Can be interpreted as Hawaiian Mei + lani "heavenly May".

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Meilani (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Meilani is used in English. Its origins include Hawaiian.

Meilani comes through Hawaiian Mei.

Meilani is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mei and May.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,971 girls were recorded with the name Meilani between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 498 in 2025; its best national rank was #591 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #889 in 2020 to #591 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #947 in 2015 to #591 in 2025.

How common is Meilani?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 6,660
498 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 3,230
0.03% of girls
Rank, 2025
#591
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
4,615 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Meilani 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 2025 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 1001%
School of 5007%

Put another way: gather 4,615 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Meilani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Meilanis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Meilani was born before 2019 — so the typical Meilani is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
49.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,971
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 49.6% of all recorded uses (1,970).

Is Meilani 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
+223
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+298
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+356
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.74×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (498)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
44.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#591
2025

Spellings of Meilani

Meilani is not the most common spelling — Melanie is, with 56.9% against Meilani's 0.86%.

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 Meilani is used

Across 2016–2025, Meilani was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 2,000 girls, against 1 in 4,777 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in 50,000).

250 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 2,000
  2. 2New Mexico1 in 2,222
  3. 3California1 in 3,448
  4. 4Illinois1 in 3,448
  5. 5Nevada1 in 3,448
  6. 6Georgia1 in 3,846
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 3,846
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 3,846

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.

Geographically, Meilani is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 54% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Meilani around the world

Where Meilani 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
    2016–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2015–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2000–2000
    #727
    in 2000

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Meilani by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#591
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 298
Best rank ever
#591
2025
Peak year
2025
498 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,971
Count in 2025
498

Names similar to Meilani

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

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Names with a curve like Meilani

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Meilani, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Meilani

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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