Meaning not yet researched.
Alani: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,843 in 2025. Its best rank was #161 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 99.6% of babies named Alani in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#161 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Alani: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,843 girls in 2025. Peak: #161 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 1,843 (2025).
In 2025, 1,843 US girls were named Alani, making it the 161st most common girls’ name of the year, up 17 places from #178 in 2024. That is 140 more than the 1,703 girls named Alani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #161, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,843. For comparison, it was #529 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alani in 46 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1978 with 5 babies. In all, 18,910 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 9,859 babies named Alani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 13,153 US girls were named Alani; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,843. In 2025 that was about 1 in 872 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alani ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #51 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 5 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Ailany (11,178 babies since 1880), Ailani (7,905 babies since 1880), Aylani (2,831 babies since 1880) and Aulani (1,117 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aolani, Alany and Aloni are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Aolani (927), Alany (886), Aloni (791), Alania (741), Alanii (357), Aalani (357), Alanny (281), Aliani (277), Aliany (240), Aleni (220), Alonni (206), Alannie (195), and more.
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 Alani 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 13 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 134 | #51 | #485 |
| Nevada | 32 | #57 | #538 |
| Louisiana | 55 | #60 | #368 |
| Mississippi | 29 | #65 | — |
| Delaware | 10 | #70 | — |
| Rhode Island | 8 | #106 | — |
| District of Columbia | 7 | #110 | — |
| Florida | 148 | #117 | #250 |
| North Carolina | 83 | #119 | #336 |
| Texas | 256 | #122 | #564 |
| California | 241 | #126 | #301 |
| Illinois | 72 | #133 | #361 |
| Arizona | 47 | #134 | #573 |
| Maryland | 33 | #144 | #574 |
| South Carolina | 31 | #145 | #658 |
| Alabama | 28 | #151 | #805 |
| Arkansas | 19 | #155 | — |
| Virginia | 49 | #164 | #773 |
| Pennsylvania | 61 | #183 | #517 |
| Oklahoma | 21 | #186 | — |
| New Jersey | 43 | #193 | #387 |
| Tennessee | 39 | #194 | — |
| Indiana | 34 | #202 | — |
| Michigan | 43 | #209 | — |
| Massachusetts | 26 | #216 | #516 |
| New York | 76 | #227 | #422 |
| Ohio | 49 | #231 | #1,161 |
| Colorado | 25 | #254 | #694 |
| Missouri | 23 | #265 | #841 |
| Wisconsin | 19 | #275 | #519 |
| Connecticut | 11 | #281 | #337 |
| West Virginia | 5 | #310 | — |
| Kentucky | 13 | #332 | #632 |
| Oregon | 10 | #354 | — |
| Kansas | 8 | #404 | — |
| Washington | 14 | #479 | — |
| Minnesota | 8 | #597 | — |
| Utah | 5 | #706 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,843 | #161 | 6 | #10,740 |
| 2024 | 1,703 | #178 | 7 | #9,936 |
| 2023 | 1,654 | #177 | 5 | #12,317 |
| 2022 | 1,700 | #173 | 9 | #8,331 |
| 2021 | 1,605 | #183 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,320 | #221 | 7 | #9,601 |
| 2019 | 1,074 | #303 | 14 | #6,112 |
| 2018 | 912 | #347 | 5 | #12,229 |
| 2017 | 705 | #448 | 8 | #8,875 |
| 2016 | 637 | #488 | 6 | #10,809 |
| 2015 | 595 | #529 | — | — |
| 2014 | 474 | #613 | — | — |
| 2013 | 454 | #616 | 6 | #10,780 |
| 2012 | 496 | #588 | 6 | #10,833 |
| 2011 | 425 | #666 | — | — |
| 2010 | 394 | #717 | 7 | #9,723 |
| 2009 | 376 | #755 | — | — |
| 2008 | 298 | #918 | 5 | #12,614 |
| 2007 | 320 | #873 | 5 | #12,426 |
| 2006 | 278 | #942 | 5 | #12,111 |
| 2005 | 270 | #920 | 5 | #11,520 |
| 2004 | 227 | #1,025 | 5 | #11,409 |
| 2003 | 234 | #984 | — | — |
| 2002 | 137 | #1,404 | — | — |
| 2001 | 123 | #1,516 | — | — |
| 2000 | 114 | #1,558 | — | — |
| 1999 | 79 | #1,975 | — | — |
| 1998 | 57 | #2,429 | — | — |
| 1997 | 57 | #2,328 | — | — |
| 1996 | 51 | #2,476 | — | — |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,222 | — | — |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,258 | — | — |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,258 | — | — |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,383 | — | — |
| 1991 | 10 | #7,997 | — | — |
| 1990 | 12 | #6,876 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,399 | — | — |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,702 | — | — |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,365 | — | — |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,621 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,172 | — | — |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,227 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,543 | — | — |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,145 | — | — |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,801 | — | — |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,773 | — | — |
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).