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 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 965 of them was named Alani, which outranked 99.0% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 194,001 of them was named Alani, which outranked 42.1% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #7,768Zyen10
- #7,768Zyking10
- #7,768Zylus10
- #8,300Alani9
- #8,300Aabir9
- #8,300Aadhi9
- #8,300Aarian9
- #8,990Aadarsh8
- #8,990Aadish8
- #8,990Aalim8
Tied with 689 names at #8,300; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.