Meaning not yet researched.
Ailani: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,807 in 2025. Its best rank was #168 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Ailani in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#168 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Ailani: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,807 girls in 2025. Peak: #168 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 1,807 (2025).
In 2025, 1,807 US girls were named Ailani, making it the 168th most common girls’ name of the year, up 159 places from #327 in 2024. That is 857 more than the 950 girls named Ailani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #168, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,807. For comparison, it was #1,199 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ailani in 30 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1996 with 7 babies. In all, 7,905 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 5,087 babies named Ailani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,441 US girls were named Ailani; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,807. In 2025 that was about 1 in 889 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ailani ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #70 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 3 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Alani (18,910 babies since 1880), Ailany (11,178 babies since 1880), Aylani (2,831 babies since 1880) and Aulani (1,117 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ailannie are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ailannie (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ailani in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 10 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 17 | #70 | — |
| Texas | 314 | #79 | #988 |
| California | 340 | #84 | #589 |
| Arizona | 56 | #112 | #571 |
| Georgia | 83 | #114 | #1,324 |
| Delaware | 7 | #116 | — |
| Nevada | 19 | #120 | — |
| Illinois | 74 | #127 | #1,171 |
| Oregon | 26 | #128 | — |
| Hawaii | 6 | #137 | — |
| New Jersey | 52 | #149 | #1,057 |
| Colorado | 37 | #154 | — |
| New York | 103 | #158 | #1,381 |
| Indiana | 42 | #162 | — |
| Florida | 104 | #167 | #770 |
| Washington | 41 | #176 | #1,117 |
| Rhode Island | 5 | #181 | — |
| Maryland | 28 | #184 | — |
| Virginia | 43 | #192 | — |
| Oklahoma | 20 | #196 | — |
| North Carolina | 53 | #205 | — |
| Massachusetts | 27 | #208 | — |
| Arkansas | 14 | #209 | — |
| Kansas | 15 | #214 | — |
| Idaho | 10 | #221 | — |
| Alabama | 21 | #222 | — |
| South Carolina | 21 | #228 | — |
| Wisconsin | 23 | #238 | — |
| Nebraska | 9 | #245 | — |
| Mississippi | 10 | #272 | — |
| Connecticut | 11 | #280 | — |
| Minnesota | 18 | #304 | — |
| Utah | 13 | #331 | — |
| Missouri | 17 | #350 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 30 | #361 | — |
| Tennessee | 21 | #375 | — |
| Kentucky | 11 | #383 | — |
| Ohio | 29 | #390 | — |
| Iowa | 8 | #392 | — |
| Louisiana | 10 | #426 | — |
| Michigan | 9 | #787 | #1,282 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,807 | #168 | — | — |
| 2024 | 950 | #327 | 6 | #10,993 |
| 2023 | 507 | #591 | — | — |
| 2022 | 680 | #467 | — | — |
| 2021 | 581 | #532 | — | — |
| 2020 | 556 | #542 | — | — |
| 2019 | 423 | #685 | — | — |
| 2018 | 359 | #759 | — | — |
| 2017 | 277 | #952 | — | — |
| 2016 | 301 | #915 | — | — |
| 2015 | 208 | #1,199 | — | — |
| 2014 | 106 | #1,894 | — | — |
| 2013 | 76 | #2,385 | — | — |
| 2012 | 92 | #2,080 | — | — |
| 2011 | 106 | #1,886 | — | — |
| 2010 | 92 | #2,137 | — | — |
| 2009 | 112 | #1,876 | — | — |
| 2008 | 90 | #2,207 | — | — |
| 2007 | 118 | #1,804 | — | — |
| 2006 | 124 | #1,692 | — | — |
| 2005 | 106 | #1,838 | — | — |
| 2004 | 82 | #2,175 | — | — |
| 2003 | 49 | #3,044 | — | — |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,773 | — | — |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,075 | — | — |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,314 | — | — |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,245 | — | — |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,166 | — | — |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,823 | — | — |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,587 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).