Xolani
#1,120 for girls in 2025, 209 births · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to girls 93.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 209 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,039since 2004
Xolani 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 | #1,120 | 209 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #1,152 | 209 | #8,987 | 8 |
| 2023 | #1,292 | 177 | #7,289 | 11 |
| 2022 | #1,621 | 130 | #7,262 | 11 |
| 2021 | #2,007 | 96 | #7,587 | 10 |
| 2020 | #2,659 | 63 | #8,739 | 8 |
| 2019 | #4,546 | 30 | #6,104 | 14 |
| 2018 | #4,357 | 32 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #5,821 | 21 | — | |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 | — | |
| 2015 | #7,613 | 15 | — | |
| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 | — | |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | — | |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 | — | |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | — | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | — | |
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| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Xolani! It came in at #16,099, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2004–2007, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Xolani
- 32 spots since 2024 (#1,152 → #1,120)
- 1,539 spots since 2020 (#2,659 → #1,120)
- 6,493 spots since 2015 (#7,613 → #1,120)
- Debuted 2004
- Peaked 2025 at #1,120 (209 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 7,690 girls born in 2025 were named Xolani (0.01%)
- 85.1% of all girls named Xolani (884) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 11 | #15,405 (2008) | #15,752 |
| 2010s | 144 | #4,357 (2018) | #9,867 |
| 2020s | 884 | #1,120 (2025) | #1,642 |
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.
Xolani in 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 9,065 of them was named Xolani, which outranked 92.7% 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).
- #1,287Robyn178
- #1,287Sunday178
- #1,287Susanna178
- #1,292Xolani177
- #1,292Adrienne177
- #1,292Alara177
- #1,292Brenda177
- #1,300Navi176
- #1,300Wendy176
- #1,302Alaiyah175
Tied with 7 names at #1,292; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 155,507 of them was named Xolani, which outranked 48.7% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #6,897Zeid12
- #6,897Zoe12
- #6,897Zyonn12
- #7,289Xolani11
- #7,289Aadhav11
- #7,289Aadit11
- #7,289Aadyn11
- #7,738Aadam10
- #7,738Aalijah10
- #7,738Aari10
Tied with 448 names at #7,289; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.