Meaning not yet researched.
Kailani: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,215 in 2025. Its best rank was #222 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #222 in 2022; #253 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kailani in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#253 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #222.
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Kailani: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,215 girls in 2025. Peak: #222 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 1,350 (2022).
In 2025, 1,215 US girls were named Kailani, making it the 253rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 23 places from #276 in 2024. That is 71 more than the 1,144 girls named Kailani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #222, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,350. For comparison, it was #878 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kailani in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1980 with 8 babies. In all, 12,823 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 7,322 babies named Kailani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 9,864 US girls were named Kailani; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 1,350. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,323 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kailani ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #16 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Kalani (12,515 babies since 1880), Kaylani (11,877 babies since 1880), Kahlani (2,220 babies since 1880) and Kailany (1,840 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kaloni, Kaiulani and Calani are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Kaloni (696), Kaiulani (454), Calani (436), Kalyani (368), Kaylanni (337), Kailoni (232), Caylani (205), Kaylany (185), Kalanie (183), Kaylahni (183), Kaylanii (176), Kalahni (166), 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 Kailani 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 12 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 24 | #16 | #97 |
| Delaware | 8 | #104 | — |
| New Mexico | 12 | #122 | — |
| Rhode Island | 7 | #137 | — |
| Connecticut | 21 | #148 | — |
| Nevada | 16 | #155 | #495 |
| Texas | 193 | #170 | #912 |
| Louisiana | 24 | #174 | — |
| South Carolina | 27 | #176 | — |
| Florida | 100 | #177 | #443 |
| Alabama | 24 | #187 | — |
| Maryland | 26 | #199 | — |
| California | 153 | #216 | #528 |
| Tennessee | 35 | #230 | — |
| Colorado | 27 | #238 | #957 |
| Georgia | 44 | #241 | #711 |
| North Carolina | 45 | #242 | #1,034 |
| Kentucky | 18 | #251 | — |
| Arizona | 26 | #276 | #622 |
| Virginia | 30 | #279 | — |
| Idaho | 8 | #291 | — |
| Nebraska | 7 | #314 | — |
| Washington | 23 | #323 | #803 |
| Oklahoma | 13 | #326 | — |
| New York | 50 | #339 | #948 |
| Utah | 13 | #347 | — |
| Arkansas | 9 | #352 | — |
| Mississippi | 8 | #363 | — |
| Ohio | 31 | #363 | — |
| Illinois | 28 | #367 | #707 |
| Indiana | 19 | #369 | #1,007 |
| Oregon | 10 | #373 | — |
| New Jersey | 20 | #395 | #1,268 |
| Michigan | 21 | #416 | — |
| Massachusetts | 13 | #429 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 24 | #446 | #983 |
| Wisconsin | 11 | #466 | — |
| Minnesota | 11 | #479 | — |
| Missouri | 11 | #535 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,215 | #253 | — | — |
| 2024 | 1,144 | #276 | — | — |
| 2023 | 1,320 | #226 | 8 | #9,340 |
| 2022 | 1,350 | #222 | 8 | #9,413 |
| 2021 | 1,139 | #278 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,133 | #282 | 5 | #13,051 |
| 2019 | 903 | #350 | 7 | #10,277 |
| 2018 | 795 | #390 | — | — |
| 2017 | 486 | #617 | — | — |
| 2016 | 379 | #753 | — | — |
| 2015 | 317 | #878 | — | — |
| 2014 | 271 | #985 | 6 | #11,413 |
| 2013 | 261 | #966 | — | — |
| 2012 | 250 | #1,013 | — | — |
| 2011 | 218 | #1,123 | — | — |
| 2010 | 187 | #1,276 | — | — |
| 2009 | 165 | #1,421 | 6 | #11,706 |
| 2008 | 179 | #1,357 | — | — |
| 2007 | 152 | #1,520 | 5 | #13,377 |
| 2006 | 144 | #1,524 | — | — |
| 2005 | 123 | #1,635 | — | — |
| 2004 | 128 | #1,551 | — | — |
| 2003 | 86 | #2,076 | — | — |
| 2002 | 64 | #2,480 | — | — |
| 2001 | 53 | #2,791 | — | — |
| 2000 | 53 | #2,756 | — | — |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,749 | — | — |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,257 | — | — |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,014 | — | — |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,162 | — | — |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,757 | — | — |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,604 | — | — |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,532 | — | — |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,457 | — | — |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,398 | — | — |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,557 | — | — |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,697 | — | — |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,848 | — | — |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,651 | — | — |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,867 | — | — |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,158 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,004 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,234 | — | — |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,721 | — | — |
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).