Meaning not yet researched.
Kaelani: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 110 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,590 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,590 in 2023; #1,824 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kaelani in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,824 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #1,590.
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Kaelani: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 110 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,590 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 132 (2023).
In 2025, 110 US girls were named Kaelani, making it the 1,824th most common girls’ name of the year, down 40 places from #1,784 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 113 girls named Kaelani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,590, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 132. For comparison, it was #3,559 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaelani in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1988 with 5 babies. In all, 1,315 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 661 babies named Kaelani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 935 US girls were named Kaelani; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 132. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,612 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kaelani ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #796 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kailani (12,823 babies since 1880), Kalani (12,515 babies since 1880), Kaylani (11,877 babies since 1880) and Kahlani (2,220 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Kaelani 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 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 5 | #796 | — |
| Indiana | 7 | #863 | — |
| Florida | 9 | #1,488 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,655 | — |
| California | 12 | #1,796 | #1,685 |
| Texas | 7 | #2,768 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 110 | #1,824 | — | — |
| 2024 | 113 | #1,784 | — | — |
| 2023 | 132 | #1,590 | — | — |
| 2022 | 109 | #1,860 | — | — |
| 2021 | 86 | #2,178 | — | — |
| 2020 | 111 | #1,786 | — | — |
| 2019 | 92 | #2,061 | — | — |
| 2018 | 61 | #2,799 | — | — |
| 2017 | 59 | #2,853 | — | — |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,781 | — | — |
| 2015 | 44 | #3,559 | — | — |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,223 | — | — |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,482 | — | — |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,897 | — | — |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,506 | — | — |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,495 | — | — |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,930 | — | — |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,029 | — | — |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,606 | — | — |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,993 | — | — |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,575 | — | — |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,349 | — | — |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,830 | — | — |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,039 | — | — |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,710 | — | — |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,976 | — | — |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,868 | — | — |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,571 | — | — |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,994 | — | — |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,511 | — | — |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,474 | — | — |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,689 | — | — |
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).