Kalani
#387 for girls in 2025, 800 births · #4,707 for boys in 2025, 21 births
Given to girls 82.1% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 2021 · 959 births
- Debut · girls
- 11 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 10,278since 1963
Kalani over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
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| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #387 | 800 | #4,707 | 21 |
| 2024 | #339 | 921 | #3,272 | 36 |
| 2023 | #378 | 814 | #3,474 | 33 |
| 2022 | #375 | 843 | #3,216 | 37 |
| 2021 | #339 | 959 | #2,819 | 44 |
| 2020 | #397 | 784 | #2,806 | 43 |
| 2019 | #469 | 668 | #3,103 | 38 |
| 2018 | #583 | 527 | #2,796 | 43 |
| 2017 | #544 | 568 | #2,295 | 57 |
| 2016 | #675 | 433 | #1,903 | 77 |
| 2015 | #838 | 334 | #2,300 | 57 |
| 2014 | #1,072 | 239 | #2,154 | 63 |
| 2013 | #1,371 | 170 | #1,827 | 78 |
| 2012 | #1,307 | 180 | #1,849 | 79 |
| 2011 | #1,434 | 158 | #1,866 | 75 |
| 2010 | #1,678 | 126 | #1,986 | 69 |
| 2009 | #1,414 | 166 | #1,762 | 86 |
| 2008 | #1,949 | 108 | #2,062 | 67 |
| 2007 | #1,784 | 120 | #2,016 | 69 |
| 2006 | #1,597 | 134 | #1,724 | 81 |
| 2005 | #1,741 | 113 | #1,943 | 65 |
| 2004 | #1,436 | 143 | #1,857 | 66 |
| 2003 | #1,755 | 107 | #1,906 | 61 |
| 2002 | #1,915 | 92 | #1,772 | 65 |
| 2001 | #2,064 | 81 | #1,893 | 58 |
| 2000 | #2,277 | 68 | #1,968 | 52 |
| 1999 | #2,283 | 65 | #1,995 | 48 |
| 1998 | #2,929 | 44 | #2,274 | 39 |
| 1997 | #2,590 | 49 | #2,981 | 25 |
| 1996 | #3,093 | 38 | #2,679 | 28 |
| 1995 | #2,788 | 43 | #2,685 | 27 |
| 1994 | #3,234 | 35 | #2,392 | 32 |
| 1993 | #3,776 | 28 | #2,455 | 30 |
| 1992 | #5,051 | 19 | #2,599 | 27 |
| 1991 | #5,181 | 18 | #2,753 | 24 |
| 1990 | #3,623 | 29 | #2,488 | 27 |
| 1989 | #4,121 | 23 | #2,068 | 34 |
| 1988 | #3,225 | 30 | #2,860 | 19 |
| 1987 | #4,857 | 16 | #2,559 | 21 |
| 1986 | #4,539 | 17 | #2,360 | 23 |
| 1985 | #5,077 | 14 | #2,226 | 24 |
| 1984 | #5,899 | 11 | #2,437 | 20 |
| 1983 | #5,457 | 12 | #3,411 | 12 |
| 1982 | #5,534 | 12 | #2,709 | 17 |
| 1981 | #4,344 | 17 | #2,496 | 19 |
| 1980 | #4,743 | 15 | #2,284 | 22 |
| 1979 | #6,189 | 10 | #3,018 | 14 |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 | #2,375 | 19 |
| 1977 | #4,652 | 14 | #1,858 | 27 |
| 1976 | #6,048 | 9 | #2,245 | 20 |
| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 | #2,001 | 23 |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | #2,459 | 16 |
| 1973 | — | #2,716 | 13 | |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 | #3,622 | 8 |
| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 | #2,686 | 13 |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | — | |
| 1969 | — | #3,314 | 8 | |
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| 1967 | — | #2,760 | 9 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
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| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 | — | |
| 1963 | #4,019 | 11 | #2,858 | 9 |
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| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
| 1960 | — | #4,038 | 5 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1963
The first year at least five girls were named Kalani! It came in at #4,019, and was given to 11 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1964–1970, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
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Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 48 spots since 2024 (#339 → #387)
- 10 spots since 2020 (#397 → #387)
- 451 spots since 2015 (#838 → #387)
- Biggest jump: 234 spots in 2015 (#1,072 → #838)
- Biggest drop: 48 spots in 2025 (#339 → #387)
Rise & fade · girls
58 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1963
- Peaked 2021 at #339 (959 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 11 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 2015–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 1,711
- Highest: 1 in 1,711 girls born in 2021 were named Kalani (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,009 girls born in 2025 (0.05%)
Era · girls
The 2020s
- 49.8% of all girls named Kalani (5,121) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1994
- Mostly boys until 1993, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 16 | #4,019 (1963) | #5,393 |
| 1970s | 71 | #4,652 (1977) | #6,855 |
| 1980s | 167 | #3,225 (1988) | #4,780 |
| 1990s | 368 | #2,283 (1999) | #3,455 |
| 2000s | 1,132 | #1,414 (2009) | #1,793 |
| 2010s | 3,403 | #469 (2019) | #997 |
| 2020s | 5,121 | #339 (2021) | #369 |
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.
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