Mulan
A girls’ name of Chinese origin, meaning wood orchid.
Babies a year
29
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list
Mulan by the numbers
Mulan was given to 29 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 32 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Mulan. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean a forest or wood
Like Mulan, each of these has a forest or wood in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Sawyerone who saws wood; woodcutter5,531 in the US (2017)
- Kimberlyfrom the wood of the royal forest1,823 in the US (2017)
- Lennoxelm grove or from the place of the elms1,200 in the US (2017)
- Emberglowing piece of coal or wood192 in England and Wales (2025)
- Henleyhigh wood or clearing670 in the US (2017)
- Sylviafrom the forest636 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Mulan
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