Mulan
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- moo-LAHN
- Origin
- Chinese
- US rank, 2025
- #2,458 for girls
Mulan is a girls' name of Chinese origin, meaning “magnolia”. In 2025 it ranked 2,458th for girls in the US (72 babies).
What does Mulan mean?
Chinese: from Chinese mulan
“magnolia”
Hua Mulan is the legendary woman warrior of the Ballad of Mulan, retold in Disney's 1998 animated film.
Is Mulan a girl's or a boy's name?
Mulan is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 72 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Mulan in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,458th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 72 about 1 in 22,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 13% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 72 girls in the US were named Mulan, making it the 2,458th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,441st. It first appears in the records in 1998.
2025 had the most girls named Mulan of any year since it first appeared, in 1998.
Half of all the girls named Mulan in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Mulan in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72 | #2,458 |
| 2024 | 70 | #2,533 |
| 2023 | 56 | #2,975 |
| 2022 | 59 | #2,856 |
| 2021 | 50 | #3,215 |
| 2020 | 71 | #2,441 |
| 2019 | 50 | #3,171 |
| 2018 | 54 | #3,003 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,693 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,422 |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,651 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,161 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,011 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,707 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,146 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,786 |
| 2009 | 11 | #9,971 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,574 |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,606 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,589 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,013 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,147 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,378 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,068 |
Names like Mulan
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Salem, Safa, Zaya, Zayla, Zainab, Zaniyah, Hadassah, Razan, Ayra, Zaliyah, Aaliyah, Hafsa
Names related to Mulan
More Chinese names
Lian, Jia, Mei, Tai, Tian, Jun, Yi, Tao, San, Jian, Han, Mian, Bao, Xia, Lin, Yichen
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Mulan: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mulan, updated 20 October 2026.