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 | ||
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| 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.
Where Kailani is popular in 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Hawaii#55 · 1 in 206
- New Mexico#105 · 1 in 396
- California#154 · 1 in 842
- Texas#161 · 1 in 840
- Arizona#169 · 1 in 790
Best ever in a state: #15 in Hawaii, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | #55 | 12 | 1 in 206 |
| New Mexico | #105 | 13 | 1 in 396 |
| California | #154 | 207 | 1 in 842 |
| Texas | #161 | 182 | 1 in 840 |
| Arizona | #169 | 35 | 1 in 790 |
| Rhode Island | #173 | 5 | 1 in 520 |
| Nevada | #175 | 14 | 1 in 696 |
| South Carolina | #182 | 24 | 1 in 721 |
| Georgia | #202 | 51 | 1 in 872 |
| Florida | #211 | 80 | 1 in 1,006 |
| Oregon | #222 | 16 | 1 in 818 |
| Alabama | #232 | 21 | 1 in 891 |
| Nebraska | #237 | 9 | 1 in 790 |
| New Jersey | #244 | 32 | 1 in 1,089 |
| Idaho | #254 | 7 | 1 in 873 |
| Maryland | #267 | 21 | 1 in 1,063 |
| Washington | #269 | 26 | 1 in 1,120 |
| Virginia | #273 | 30 | 1 in 1,138 |
| North Carolina | #280 | 37 | 1 in 1,179 |
| Colorado | #281 | 19 | 1 in 1,134 |
| Connecticut | #288 | 10 | 1 in 1,125 |
| Kansas | #292 | 11 | 1 in 1,041 |
| Mississippi | #292 | 10 | 1 in 1,014 |
| Louisiana | #311 | 16 | 1 in 1,156 |
| New York | #322 | 54 | 1 in 1,474 |
| Illinois | #345 | 32 | 1 in 1,524 |
| Arkansas | #350 | 8 | 1 in 1,291 |
| Oklahoma | #386 | 10 | 1 in 1,478 |
| Tennessee | #391 | 19 | 1 in 1,598 |
| Pennsylvania | #417 | 26 | 1 in 1,860 |
| Indiana | #468 | 14 | 1 in 2,001 |
| Utah | #523 | 7 | 1 in 2,302 |
| Michigan | #550 | 15 | 1 in 2,523 |
| Ohio | #605 | 16 | 1 in 2,994 |
| Kentucky | #722 | 5 | 1 in 3,380 |
| Missouri | #828 | 6 | 1 in 4,080 |
| Wisconsin | #829 | 5 | 1 in 4,155 |
| Massachusetts | #841 | 5 | 1 in 4,772 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 1,427 of them was named Kailani, which outranked 98.4% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 345,215 of them was named Kailani, which outranked 14.5% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,038 names at #12,022; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.