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 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 11,380 of them was named Kelani, which outranked 91.4% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,514Maribel142
- #1,514Nelly142
- #1,514Santana142
- #1,519Kelani141
- #1,519Alaysia141
- #1,519Kinsleigh141
- #1,519Laken141
- #1,524Aryah140
- #1,524Georgie140
- #1,524Katerina140
Tied with 4 names at #1,519; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.