Maleny
Girl · mah-LEH-nee
Maleny is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
Where does Maleny come from?
Spelling of Maleni; probably an elaboration of Malena, a Spanish short form of Magdalena or Maria Elena
- Say it
- mah-LEH-nee
Meaning borrowed from Maleni.
Is Maleny a girl's or a boy's name?
Maleny is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Maleny in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #14,937among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Maleny, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 1993, with 58 girls. It first appears in the records in 1991.
2025 had the fewest girls named Maleny since it first appeared, in 1991.
Half of all the girls named Maleny in the US since 1880 were born between 1996 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 72 girls in the US were given Maleny or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,103, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.
- Maleni 67
- Maleny 5
Maleny in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,590 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,635 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,338 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,758 |
| 2017 | 10 | #9,939 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,923 |
| 2015 | 32 | #4,402 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,512 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,575 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,251 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,146 |
| 2010 | 22 | #5,975 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,314 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,516 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,711 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,325 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,684 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,666 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,274 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,344 |
| 2000 | 18 | #5,932 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,233 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,420 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,622 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,569 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,636 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,244 |
| 1993 | 58 | #2,236 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,229 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,653 |
Names like Maleny
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kennedy Emery Avery Murphy Emely Mckinley Mallory Madison Cassidy Lily Mckenna Harmony