girls:
9.4k births since 1991
#1663 (71st percentile)
boys:
5 births since 2021
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
9.4k births since 1991
#2773 (64th percentile)
The name Milani is the #2,773 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,437 recorded births since 1991. This represents the 64.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 64.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,663 (70.9% percentile) for all time with 9,432 births since 1991. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2021.
Milani first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1991 (1991 for girls and 2021 for boys). Birth data for Milani is available in 30 out of the 33 years between 1991 and 2023 (30 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Milani has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Milani reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 76.4% percentile (ranked #227) with 723 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 723 births per million (ranked 76.4% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Milani ranks #256 for girls (73.0% percentile) with 660 births per million, which is 91.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Milani reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #930) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Milani".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Milani. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 66.7% confident that Milani is pronounced as mih-LAH-nee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mee-LAH-nee, at 25.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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