Jelani
#2,583 for girls in 2025, 67 births · #2,145 for boys in 2025, 67 births
Given to boys 83.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1998 · 151 births
- Debut · boys
- 36 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,718since 1973
Jelani over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #2,583 | 67 | #2,145 | 67 |
| 2024 | #2,150 | 88 | #1,752 | 94 |
| 2023 | #2,176 | 87 | #1,404 | 131 |
| 2022 | #2,228 | 84 | #1,421 | 129 |
| 2021 | #3,112 | 52 | #1,635 | 102 |
| 2020 | #3,607 | 41 | #1,731 | 89 |
| 2019 | #3,718 | 40 | #1,737 | 90 |
| 2018 | #4,562 | 30 | #1,809 | 84 |
| 2017 | #4,220 | 34 | #1,605 | 100 |
| 2016 | #5,622 | 23 | #1,618 | 99 |
| 2015 | #7,266 | 16 | #1,717 | 90 |
| 2014 | #10,129 | 10 | #2,044 | 69 |
| 2013 | #10,235 | 10 | #1,794 | 80 |
| 2012 | #8,632 | 13 | #1,729 | 87 |
| 2011 | #8,614 | 13 | #1,476 | 110 |
| 2010 | #11,246 | 9 | #1,574 | 100 |
| 2009 | #8,454 | 14 | #1,573 | 103 |
| 2008 | #8,965 | 13 | #1,594 | 99 |
| 2007 | #9,007 | 13 | #1,760 | 84 |
| 2006 | #8,715 | 13 | #1,391 | 114 |
| 2005 | #7,891 | 14 | #1,431 | 103 |
| 2004 | #8,716 | 12 | #1,196 | 128 |
| 2003 | #4,943 | 25 | #1,155 | 130 |
| 2002 | #7,045 | 15 | #1,098 | 133 |
| 2001 | #6,619 | 16 | #1,129 | 124 |
| 2000 | #7,580 | 13 | #1,021 | 143 |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 | #1,130 | 116 |
| 1998 | #4,796 | 22 | #931 | 151 |
| 1997 | #5,228 | 19 | #1,051 | 121 |
| 1996 | #4,184 | 25 | #1,071 | 113 |
| 1995 | #5,958 | 15 | #1,062 | 112 |
| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 | #1,119 | 102 |
| 1993 | #6,264 | 14 | #1,138 | 98 |
| 1992 | #7,067 | 12 | #1,119 | 96 |
| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 | #1,030 | 110 |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #1,201 | 82 |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | #1,374 | 64 |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | #1,286 | 64 |
| 1987 | — | #1,234 | 62 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,662 | 38 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,644 | 38 | |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | #1,198 | 58 |
| 1983 | — | #1,562 | 38 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,179 | 61 | |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #1,246 | 54 |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | #1,070 | 71 |
| 1979 | — | #1,100 | 66 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,121 | 61 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,027 | 70 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,154 | 55 | |
| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 | #1,258 | 46 |
| 1974 | — | #1,124 | 53 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,400 | 36 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jelani! It came in at #1,400, and was given to 36 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1973–1975, when fewer than 54 boys a year got the name.
See more about Jelani
- 393 spots since 2024 (#1,752 → #2,145)
- 414 spots since 2020 (#1,731 → #2,145)
- 428 spots since 2015 (#1,717 → #2,145)
- Biggest jump: 120 spots in 1998 (#1,051 → #931)
- Biggest drop: 199 spots in 1999 (#931 → #1,130)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 1998 at #931 (151 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 16 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1998
- Highest: 1 in 12,658 boys born in 1998 were named Jelani (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 25,494 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 24.6% of all boys named Jelani (1,161) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2024, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 387 | #1,027 (1977) | #1,169 |
| 1980s | 548 | #1,070 (1980) | #1,346 |
| 1990s | 1,101 | #931 (1998) | #1,085 |
| 2000s | 1,161 | #1,021 (2000) | #1,335 |
| 2010s | 909 | #1,476 (2011) | #1,710 |
| 2020s | 612 | #1,404 (2023) | #1,681 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jelani in 1995
Top girls' names in 1995
Top boys' names in 1995
More about 1995
girls
1,758,548 girls got a published name in 1995; 1 in 117,237 of them was named Jelani, which outranked 62.2% of the 15,753 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,677Zahara16
- #5,677Zofia16
- #5,677Zoi16
- #5,958Jelani15
- #5,958Adeja15
- #5,958Adi15
- #5,958Adrionna15
- #6,257Aaliyha14
- #6,257Aalyiah14
- #6,257Abagael14
Tied with 298 names at #5,958; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,903,701 boys got a published name in 1995; 1 in 16,997 of them was named Jelani, which outranked 89.7% of the 10,330 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).