Meaning not yet researched.
Jelani: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 67 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,160 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,160 in 2024; #2,595 in 2025. About 50% of babies named Jelani in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,595 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #2,160.
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Jelani: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 67 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,160 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 88 (2024).
In 2025, 67 US girls were named Jelani, making it the 2,595th most common girls’ name of the year, down 435 places from #2,160 in 2024. That is 21 fewer than the 88 girls named Jelani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,160, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 88. For comparison, it was #7,421 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 67 US boys were named Jelani, making it the 2,156th most common boys’ name of the year, down 400 places from #1,756 in 2024. That is 27 fewer than the 94 boys named Jelani in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #935, reached in 1998. That year also had the most boys given the name: 151. For comparison, it was #1,725 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jelani in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 36 babies. In all, 5,660 US babies have been given the name, 17% of them girls and 83% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,309 babies named Jelani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 546 US girls were named Jelani; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 88. In 2025 that was about 1 in 23,989 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jelani ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #1,131 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Jehlani, Jeilani and Jeylani are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jehlani (393), Jeilani (209), Jeylani (123), Jeilany (102), Jelany (34), Jelanie (27), Jeloni (17), Jeylanie (10), Jeilanie (6).
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 Jelani 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 8 | #1,131 | — |
| New York | 7 | #1,738 | — |
| Florida | 7 | #1,767 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 67 | #2,595 | 67 | #2,156 |
| 2024 | 88 | #2,160 | 94 | #1,756 |
| 2023 | 87 | #2,186 | 131 | #1,405 |
| 2022 | 84 | #2,235 | 129 | #1,423 |
| 2021 | 52 | #3,135 | 102 | #1,639 |
| 2020 | 41 | #3,653 | 89 | #1,738 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,749 | 90 | #1,740 |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,613 | 84 | #1,813 |
| 2017 | 34 | #4,258 | 100 | #1,607 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,706 | 99 | #1,623 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,421 | 90 | #1,725 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,497 | 69 | #2,049 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,581 | 80 | #1,803 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,852 | 87 | #1,733 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,857 | 110 | #1,479 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,687 | 100 | #1,580 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,638 | 103 | #1,580 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,204 | 99 | #1,600 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,237 | 84 | #1,763 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,942 | 114 | #1,397 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,081 | 103 | #1,438 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,938 | 128 | #1,199 |
| 2003 | 25 | #5,014 | 130 | #1,156 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,212 | 133 | #1,102 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,767 | 124 | #1,131 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,767 | 143 | #1,021 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,769 | 116 | #1,138 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,857 | 151 | #935 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,298 | 121 | #1,053 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,238 | 113 | #1,077 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,087 | 112 | #1,065 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,823 | 102 | #1,120 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,403 | 98 | #1,139 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,224 | 96 | #1,125 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,625 | 110 | #1,034 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,883 | 82 | #1,212 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,406 | 64 | #1,375 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,911 | 64 | #1,286 |
| 1987 | — | — | 62 | #1,242 |
| 1986 | — | — | 38 | #1,677 |
| 1985 | — | — | 38 | #1,655 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,613 | 58 | #1,206 |
| 1983 | — | — | 38 | #1,576 |
| 1982 | — | — | 61 | #1,183 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,059 | 54 | #1,252 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,556 | 71 | #1,073 |
| 1979 | — | — | 66 | #1,101 |
| 1978 | — | — | 61 | #1,126 |
| 1977 | — | — | 70 | #1,032 |
| 1976 | — | — | 55 | #1,157 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,393 | 46 | #1,269 |
| 1974 | — | — | 53 | #1,129 |
| 1973 | — | — | 36 | #1,416 |
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).