Malani
surname · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Malani is a surname, with more bearers in the Czechia than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Finish us (a taunt to death).
- SESweden1 in 204◐
- DKDenmark1 in 532
- NONorway1 in 539
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈372K ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 281 ●
- 1 in 50 ◐
across 16 countries
recorded for this name
148K records
Official registry-verified
Czechia
Spellings & scripts●
11 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Malin in SE Sweden, US United States, NL Netherlands and 7 more, Malene in DK Denmark, NO Norway, PL Poland and 3 more, Malini in IN India, MY Malaysia, GY Guyana and มาลินี in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Finish us (a taunt to death).
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | — | 214,916 | — | 1 in 50 | 215K | — | — |
| IN India | — | 53,193 | 39K rec. | — | 460 | Malini | 125 |
| SE Sweden | #203 | 50,065△ | 5.6K rec. | 1 in 204 | 50K | Malin | 97 |
| TH Thailand | #437 | 47,768 | 24K rec. | — | #480,145 | มาลินี | 97 |
| HR Croatia | — | 24,038 | — | 1 in 176 | 24K | — | — |
| FR France | — | 13,410△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 5.1K | 13K | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | 12,352 | 52K rec. | 1 in 27K | 12K | Malin | 281 |
| DK Denmark | #124 | 11,038△ | 3.7K rec. | 1 in 532 | 11K | Malene | 140 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 10,363 | 0 rec. | 1 in 203 | 10K | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | #349 | 10,136△ | 1.3K rec. | 1 in 539 | 36K | Malene | 57 |
| PL Poland | — | 9,825△ | 30 rec. | 1 in 3.9K | 9.8K | Malene | 7 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 8,473△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 2K | 8.5K | — | 2 |
Roughly 215K people in Czechia bear this name (about 1 in 50). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi14K63%
- English2.2K10%
- 1.6K7%
- Sinhala1.5K7%
- Swahili4752%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 13,816 | 63% |
| English | 2,173 | 10% |
| 1,567 | 7% | |
| Sinhala | 1,455 | 7% |
| Swahili | 475 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1920 | 1 |
| 1923 | 1 |
| 1925 | 1 |
| 1926 | 1 |
| 1927 | 2 |
| 1928 | 1 |
| 1929 | 1 |
| 1930 | 1 |
| 1931 | 3 |
| 1932 | 6 |
| 1933 | 2 |
| 1934 | 3 |
| 1935 | 3 |
| 1936 | 3 |
| 1937 | 1 |
| 1938 | 2 |
| 1939 | 9 |
| 1940 | 3 |
| 1941 | 1 |
| 1942 | 4 |
| 1943 | 9 |
| 1944 | 5 |
| 1945 | 6 |
| 1946 | 5 |
| 1947 | 4 |
| 1948 | 7 |
| 1949 | 7 |
| 1950 | 9 |
| 1951 | 4 |
| 1952 | 5 |
| 1953 | 10 |
| 1954 | 8 |
| 1955 | 8 |
| 1956 | 8 |
| 1957 | 10 |
| 1958 | 4 |
| 1959 | 11 |
| 1960 | 6 |
| 1961 | 16 |
| 1962 | 11 |
| 1963 | 26 |
| 1964 | 15 |
| 1965 | 11 |
| 1966 | 10 |
| 1967 | 20 |
| 1968 | 20 |
| 1969 | 18 |
| 1970 | 12 |
| 1971 | 17 |
| 1972 | 23 |
| 1973 | 17 |
| 1974 | 17 |
| 1975 | 24 |
| 1976 | 9 |
| 1977 | 25 |
| 1978 | 22 |
| 1979 | 16 |
| 1980 | 20 |
| 1981 | 10 |
| 1982 | 18 |
| 1983 | 18 |
| 1984 | 15 |
| 1985 | 13 |
| 1986 | 8 |
| 1987 | 9 |
| 1988 | 7 |
| 1989 | 14 |
| 1990 | 10 |
| 1991 | 5 |
| 1992 | 8 |
| 1993 | 16 |
| 1994 | 3 |
| 1995 | 14 |
| 1996 | 6 |
| 1997 | 3 |
| 1998 | 1 |
| 2008 | 3 |
| 2010 | 2 |
| 2012 | 2 |
| 2013 | 3 |
| 2014 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 82 years between 1920–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Nalini Malanib. 1946INcontemporary Indian artist (born 1946)
- Ritesh S. MalaniINresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 24 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.9K | #7,850 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 943 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 870 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 822 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 790 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 750 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 618 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 460 | #9,784 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 433 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 375 | #58,437 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 373 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 290 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 208 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Malani?
- We estimate roughly 372 thousand people bear Malani (counting its spellings and scripts) across 16 countries in our records.
- In which country does Malani have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 215 thousand people bear Malani in the Czechia, more than in any other country in our records.
- Where is Malani most common?
- Malani is densest in the Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 50 people carrying it.
- How common is Malani compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Malani is the 124th most common given name of 31,396 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Malani mean?
- Recorded meaning: Finish us (a taunt to death).
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Malani” — the 124th most common given name in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.