Kailani
#253 for girls in 2025, 1,215 births · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #8,921
Given to girls 99.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2022 · 1,350 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 12,778since 1980
Kailani over time
Rank among girls' names. Kailani has never cracked the top 200 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 | #253 | 1,215 | — | |
| 2024 | #276 | 1,144 | — | |
| 2023 | #226 | 1,320 | #8,921 | 8 |
| 2022 | #222 | 1,350 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #278 | 1,139 | — | |
| 2020 | #282 | 1,133 | #12,022 | 5 |
| 2019 | #350 | 903 | #9,756 | 7 |
| 2018 | #390 | 795 | — | |
| 2017 | #617 | 486 | — | |
| 2016 | #751 | 379 | — | |
| 2015 | #877 | 317 | — | |
| 2014 | #984 | 271 | #10,717 | 6 |
| 2013 | #964 | 261 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,011 | 250 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,123 | 218 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,274 | 187 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,420 | 165 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | #1,354 | 179 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,517 | 152 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #1,522 | 144 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,631 | 123 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,546 | 128 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,062 | 86 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,467 | 64 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,766 | 53 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,740 | 53 | — | |
| 1999 | #3,718 | 32 | — | |
| 1998 | #3,222 | 38 | — | |
| 1997 | #5,868 | 16 | — | |
| 1996 | #5,065 | 19 | — | |
| 1995 | #4,677 | 21 | — | |
| 1994 | #4,521 | 22 | — | |
| 1993 | #5,419 | 17 | — | |
| 1992 | #6,314 | 14 | — | |
| 1991 | #6,253 | 14 | — | |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 | — | |
| 1989 | #7,449 | 10 | — | |
| 1988 | #6,666 | 11 | — | |
| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 | — | |
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| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | — | |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | — | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | — | |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | — | |
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| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kailani! It came in at #7,418, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1981–1984, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Kailani
- 23 spots since 2024 (#276 → #253)
- 29 spots since 2020 (#282 → #253)
- 624 spots since 2015 (#877 → #253)
- Biggest jump: 227 spots in 2018 (#617 → #390)
- Biggest drop: 50 spots in 2024 (#226 → #276)
- Debuted 1980
- Peaked 2022 at #222 (1,350 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 2013–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,215 girls born in 2022 were named Kailani (0.08%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,323 girls born in 2025 (0.08%)
- 57.1% of all girls named Kailani (7,301) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 59 | #6,666 (1988) | #8,676 |
| 1990s | 204 | #3,222 (1998) | #5,236 |
| 2000s | 1,147 | #1,354 (2008) | #1,903 |
| 2010s | 4,067 | #350 (2019) | #834 |
| 2020s | 7,301 | #222 (2022) | #256 |
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.
Kailani in 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 1,859 of them was named Kailani, which outranked 98.1% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 256,317 of them was named Kailani, which outranked 31.0% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #8,889Zylo8
- #8,889Zylus8
- #8,889Zyrie8
- #9,756Kailani7
- #9,756Aadhavan7
- #9,756Aagam7
- #9,756Aari7
- #10,803Aaban6
- #10,803Aadhan6
- #10,803Aamil6
Tied with 1,046 names at #9,756; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.