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Mulan

#2,475 in 2025Girls' name

Magnolia

Mulan has been given to 748 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #2,475 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 72 recorded.

Babies named Mulan, 2025

1 in 46,000

Mulan over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mulan: meaning, origin, and history

Magnolia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mulan means

Mulan means “magnolia”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 743 girls were recorded with the name Mulan between 1998 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 72 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,464 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,464 in 2020 to #2,475 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,782 in 2015 to #2,475 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Mulan between 1999 and 1999. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1999; its best national rank was #11,049 in 1999.

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.

How common is Mulan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 46,000
72 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 22,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,475
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
31,916 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mulan 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 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 31,916 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mulan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mulans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mulan was born before 2020 — so the typical Mulan is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
50.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
743
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 50.9% of all recorded uses (378).

Is Mulan 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
+74
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−11
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,307
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.13×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (72)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,464
2020

Spellings of Mulan

Mulan is not the most common spelling — Susan is, with 57.8% against Mulan's 0.04%.

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 Mulan is used

Across 2016–2025, Mulan was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 32,978 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

16 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 16,667
  2. 2Maryland1 in 16,667
  3. 3New York1 in 16,667
  4. 4Florida1 in 25,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 25,000
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 25,000
  7. 7California1 in 50,000
  8. 8Michigan1 in 50,000

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.

Mulan around the world

Where Mulan 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
    2024–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • France
    2018–2024
    #5,764
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2023–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2003–2009
    #818
    in 2009

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

Mulan by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,475
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 11
Best rank ever
#2,464
2020
Peak year
2025
72 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
743
Count in 2025
72

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,049
1999
Peak year
1999
5 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
1999
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mulan

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

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Sibling names for Mulan

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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