Kalani
#387 for girls in 2025, 800 births · #4,707 for boys in 2025, 21 births
Given to girls 82.1% of the time
- 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
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 | #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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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.
See more about Kalani
- 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)
- Debuted 1963
- Peaked 2021 at #339 (959 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 2015–2025
- 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%)
- 49.8% of all girls named Kalani (5,121) were born in this decade
- 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.
Kalani in 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 2,009 of them was named Kalani, which outranked 97.8% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 81,337 of them was named Kalani, which outranked 66.2% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
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- #4,707Kalani21
- #4,707Aarish21
- #4,707Adel21
- #4,707Akim21
- #4,857Adir20
- #4,857Adonay20
- #4,857Adonias20
Tied with 149 names at #4,707; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.