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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| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | — | |
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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 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 7,752 of them was named Xolani, which outranked 93.5% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 215,361 of them was named Xolani, which outranked 37.1% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #8,312Zoel9
- #8,312Zoro9
- #8,312Zubin9
- #8,987Xolani8
- #8,987Aadish8
- #8,987Aashir8
- #8,987Aason8
- #9,894Aadhi7
- #9,894Aadhyan7
- #9,894Aamari7
Tied with 906 names at #8,987; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.