Meaning not yet researched.
Eliani: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 135 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,563 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 Eliani in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,563 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Eliani: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 135 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,563 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 135 (2025).
In 2025, 135 US girls were named Eliani, making it the 1,563rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,052 places from #2,615 in 2024. That is 68 more than the 67 girls named Eliani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,563, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 135. For comparison, it was #7,070 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Eliani in 23 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1995 with 5 babies. In all, 687 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 416 babies named Eliani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 532 US girls were named Eliani; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 135. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,906 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Eliani ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #970 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Eleni (6,822 babies since 1880), Elani (2,485 babies since 1880), Elianny (1,046 babies since 1880) and Ehlani (1,027 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ilianie 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: Ilianie (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 Eliani 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 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 7 | #970 | — |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,022 | — |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,049 | — |
| Texas | 22 | #1,200 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,235 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,276 | — |
| New York | 9 | #1,439 | — |
| Florida | 9 | #1,465 | — |
| California | 11 | #1,866 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 135 | #1,563 | — | — |
| 2024 | 67 | #2,615 | — | — |
| 2023 | 58 | #2,908 | — | — |
| 2022 | 60 | #2,830 | — | — |
| 2021 | 58 | #2,901 | — | — |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,797 | — | — |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,202 | — | — |
| 2018 | 35 | #4,096 | — | — |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,841 | — | — |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,895 | — | — |
| 2015 | 17 | #7,070 | — | — |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,086 | — | — |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,260 | — | — |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,233 | — | — |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,938 | — | — |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,539 | — | — |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,169 | — | — |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,652 | — | — |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,917 | — | — |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,107 | — | — |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,265 | — | — |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,681 | — | — |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,099 | — | — |
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).