Kelani
#1,540 for girls in 2025, 137 births · Last seen for boys in 2022 at #12,330
Given to girls 96.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2020 · 182 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,708since 1976
Kelani over time
Rank among girls' names. Kelani has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #1,540 | 137 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,358 | 168 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,519 | 141 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,387 | 165 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #1,460 | 147 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,246 | 182 | #9,554 | 7 |
| 2019 | #1,687 | 124 | #10,803 | 6 |
| 2018 | #1,799 | 113 | #9,670 | 7 |
| 2017 | #2,097 | 92 | #8,840 | 8 |
| 2016 | #2,966 | 56 | #9,664 | 7 |
| 2015 | #3,915 | 38 | #9,568 | 7 |
| 2014 | #6,451 | 19 | #8,781 | 8 |
| 2013 | #5,644 | 23 | — | |
| 2012 | #6,341 | 20 | #12,274 | 5 |
| 2011 | #6,564 | 19 | — | |
| 2010 | #5,977 | 22 | — | |
| 2009 | #6,317 | 21 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | #7,073 | 18 | — | |
| 2007 | #7,733 | 16 | — | |
| 2006 | #8,715 | 13 | — | |
| 2005 | #6,245 | 19 | — | |
| 2004 | #7,391 | 15 | — | |
| 2003 | #7,580 | 14 | — | |
| 2002 | #9,482 | 10 | — | |
| 2001 | #7,317 | 14 | — | |
| 2000 | #7,158 | 14 | — | |
| 1999 | #7,239 | 13 | — | |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 | — | |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | — | |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 | — | |
| 1995 | #7,041 | 12 | — | |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 | — | |
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| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 | — | |
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| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | — | |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 | — | |
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| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | — | |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kelani! It came in at #9,284, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1976–1988, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Kelani
- 182 spots since 2024 (#1,358 → #1,540)
- 294 spots since 2020 (#1,246 → #1,540)
- 2,375 spots since 2015 (#3,915 → #1,540)
- Debuted 1976
- Peaked 2020 at #1,246 (182 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,882 girls born in 2020 were named Kelani (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 11,732 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 55.0% of all girls named Kelani (940) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 10 | #9,284 (1976) | #9,468 |
| 1980s | 9 | #8,037 (1989) | #8,037 |
| 1990s | 69 | #7,041 (1995) | #9,583 |
| 2000s | 154 | #6,245 (2005) | #7,501 |
| 2010s | 526 | #1,687 (2019) | #4,344 |
| 2020s | 940 | #1,246 (2020) | #1,418 |
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.
Kelani in 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 9,940 of them was named Kelani, which outranked 92.2% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,381Kit166
- #1,381Mika166
- #1,381Yael166
- #1,387Kelani165
- #1,387Adilynn165
- #1,387Atlas165
- #1,387Denise165
- #1,395Alessa164
- #1,395Jazzlyn164
- #1,395Julietta164
Tied with 7 names at #1,387; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 349,202 of them was named Kelani, which outranked 14.0% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,003 names at #12,330; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.