Alani
#161 for girls in 2025, 1,843 births · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to girls 99.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 1,843 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 18,799since 1978
Alani over time
Rank among girls' names. Alani has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #161 | 1,843 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #178 | 1,703 | #9,894 | 7 |
| 2023 | #177 | 1,654 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #173 | 1,700 | #8,300 | 9 |
| 2021 | #183 | 1,605 | — | |
| 2020 | #221 | 1,320 | #9,554 | 7 |
| 2019 | #303 | 1,074 | #6,104 | 14 |
| 2018 | #347 | 912 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #448 | 705 | #8,840 | 8 |
| 2016 | #488 | 637 | #10,744 | 6 |
| 2015 | #529 | 595 | — | |
| 2014 | #613 | 474 | — | |
| 2013 | #616 | 454 | #10,728 | 6 |
| 2012 | #588 | 496 | #10,770 | 6 |
| 2011 | #666 | 425 | — | |
| 2010 | #717 | 394 | #9,693 | 7 |
| 2009 | #755 | 376 | — | |
| 2008 | #918 | 298 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #873 | 320 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #942 | 278 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #920 | 270 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #1,025 | 227 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #984 | 234 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,404 | 137 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,516 | 123 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,558 | 114 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,975 | 79 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,429 | 57 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,328 | 57 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,476 | 51 | — | |
| 1995 | #4,217 | 24 | — | |
| 1994 | #5,249 | 18 | — | |
| 1993 | #4,257 | 24 | — | |
| 1992 | #4,382 | 23 | — | |
| 1991 | #7,987 | 10 | — | |
| 1990 | #6,867 | 12 | — | |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | — | |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 | — | |
| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 | — | |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 | — | |
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| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | — | |
| 1983 | #6,212 | 10 | — | |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | — | |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 | — | |
| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 | — | |
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| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Alani! It came in at #9,750, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1978–1979, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Alani
- 17 spots since 2024 (#178 → #161)
- 60 spots since 2020 (#221 → #161)
- 368 spots since 2015 (#529 → #161)
- Biggest jump: 420 spots in 2003 (#1,404 → #984)
- Biggest drop: 45 spots in 2008 (#873 → #918)
- Debuted 1978
- Peaked 2025 at #161 (1,843 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 22 yrs · run 2005–2025
- Highest: 1 in 872 girls born in 2025 were named Alani (0.11%)
- 52.3% of all girls named Alani (9,825) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #9,750 (1978) | #9,750 |
| 1980s | 71 | #6,212 (1983) | #8,202 |
| 1990s | 355 | #1,975 (1999) | #4,217 |
| 2000s | 2,377 | #755 (2009) | #1,090 |
| 2010s | 6,166 | #303 (2019) | #532 |
| 2020s | 9,825 | #161 (2025) | #182 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Alani in 2007
Top girls' names in 2007
Top boys' names in 2007
More about 2007
girls
1,922,617 girls got a published name in 2007; 1 in 6,008 of them was named Alani, which outranked 95.8% of the 20,584 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
2,075,414 boys got a published name in 2007; 1 in 415,083 of them was named Alani, which outranked 14.1% of the 14,394 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,027 names at #12,367; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.