Meaning not yet researched.
Jalani: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 228 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,068 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 93% of babies named Jalani in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,068 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Jalani: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 228 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,068 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 228 (2025).
In 2025, 228 US girls were named Jalani, making it the 1,068th most common girls’ name of the year, up 116 places from #1,184 in 2024. That is 26 more than the 202 girls named Jalani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,068, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 228. For comparison, it was #3,877 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 16 US boys were named Jalani, making it the 5,704th most common boys’ name of the year, down 561 places from #5,143 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 19 boys named Jalani in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,971, reached in 2002. The most boys given the name in a single year was 33, in 2022. For comparison, it was #4,125 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jalani in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 5 babies. In all, 2,346 US babies have been given the name, 71% of them girls and 29% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,203 babies named Jalani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,354 US girls were named Jalani; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 228. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,049 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jalani ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #226 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jaylani (3,939 babies since 1880), Jahlani (672 babies since 1880) and Jailani (619 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jalonni, Jalonii and Jalonie 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: Jalonni (52), Jalonii (11), Jalonie (10), Jaleny (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 Jalani 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 34 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 12 | #226 | — |
| Louisiana | 18 | #243 | — |
| South Carolina | 13 | #388 | — |
| Alabama | 11 | #456 | — |
| Georgia | 22 | #517 | — |
| Arkansas | 6 | #518 | — |
| Florida | 30 | #589 | #1,224 |
| Illinois | 12 | #766 | — |
| Virginia | 9 | #799 | — |
| North Carolina | 11 | #867 | — |
| Tennessee | 7 | #937 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,107 | — |
| Texas | 22 | #1,206 | — |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,255 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,492 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,558 | — |
| New York | 6 | #1,921 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 228 | #1,068 | 16 | #5,704 |
| 2024 | 202 | #1,184 | 19 | #5,143 |
| 2023 | 226 | #1,090 | 26 | #4,160 |
| 2022 | 188 | #1,274 | 33 | #3,496 |
| 2021 | 136 | #1,546 | 15 | #5,877 |
| 2020 | 96 | #1,969 | 18 | #5,122 |
| 2019 | 105 | #1,904 | 19 | #5,037 |
| 2018 | 77 | #2,371 | 27 | #3,931 |
| 2017 | 57 | #2,912 | 17 | #5,390 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,882 | 17 | #5,414 |
| 2015 | 39 | #3,877 | 25 | #4,125 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,950 | 10 | #7,805 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,112 | 15 | #5,776 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,205 | 26 | #3,942 |
| 2011 | 48 | #3,374 | 19 | #4,889 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,670 | 18 | #5,124 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,625 | 12 | #6,981 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,912 | 18 | #5,144 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,791 | 17 | #5,296 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,920 | 14 | #5,903 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,727 | 23 | #3,982 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,331 | 30 | #3,246 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,740 | 18 | #4,510 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,529 | 31 | #2,971 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,996 | 24 | #3,555 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,225 | 19 | #4,118 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,737 | 24 | #3,312 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,598 | 24 | #3,232 |
| 1997 | — | — | 20 | #3,515 |
| 1996 | — | — | 15 | #4,269 |
| 1995 | — | — | 11 | #5,297 |
| 1994 | — | — | 9 | #6,048 |
| 1993 | — | — | 13 | #4,557 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,116 | — | — |
| 1991 | — | — | 9 | #5,698 |
| 1990 | — | — | 9 | #5,554 |
| 1989 | — | — | 5 | #8,422 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,421 |
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).