Meaning not yet researched.
Kalani: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 800 in 2025. Its best rank was #339 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #339 in 2024; #387 in 2025. About 97% of babies named Kalani in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#387 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #339.
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Kalani: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 800 girls in 2025. Peak: #339 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 959 (2021).
In 2025, 800 US girls were named Kalani, making it the 387th most common girls’ name of the year, down 48 places from #339 in 2024. That is 121 fewer than the 921 girls named Kalani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #339, reached in 2024. The most girls given the name in a single year was 959, in 2021. For comparison, it was #839 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 21 US boys were named Kalani, making it the 4,792nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,487 places from #3,305 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 36 boys named Kalani in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,731, reached in 2006. The most boys given the name in a single year was 86, in 2009. For comparison, it was #2,314 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kalani in 64 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1959 with 5 babies. In all, 12,515 US babies have been given the name, 82% of them girls and 18% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 5,335 babies named Kalani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,317 US girls were named Kalani; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 959. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,009 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kalani ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #102 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), Kaylani (11,877 babies since 1880), Kahlani (2,220 babies since 1880) and Kailany (1,840 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kalonni, Caloni and Kalonie 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: Kalonni (54), Caloni (34), Kalonie (22), Kalonii (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 Kalani 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 20 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 38 | #102 | — |
| Mississippi | 21 | #109 | — |
| Alabama | 28 | #159 | #758 |
| District of Columbia | 5 | #170 | — |
| Arkansas | 17 | #182 | — |
| South Carolina | 26 | #184 | #613 |
| Georgia | 54 | #196 | #304 |
| North Carolina | 50 | #218 | #940 |
| Illinois | 42 | #250 | #948 |
| Tennessee | 29 | #269 | #791 |
| Florida | 68 | #279 | #365 |
| Michigan | 28 | #321 | — |
| Iowa | 10 | #337 | — |
| Virginia | 23 | #351 | #703 |
| Arizona | 18 | #381 | #1,024 |
| Texas | 85 | #393 | #1,165 |
| Indiana | 17 | #401 | #1,009 |
| Wisconsin | 13 | #404 | #710 |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #418 | #615 |
| Ohio | 26 | #437 | #1,365 |
| Nevada | 6 | #469 | — |
| Maryland | 11 | #479 | — |
| Missouri | 12 | #497 | — |
| Utah | 7 | #569 | — |
| New York | 29 | #576 | #907 |
| Connecticut | 5 | #580 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #669 | #1,171 |
| California | 47 | #669 | #912 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #695 | — |
| Washington | 7 | #858 | #1,031 |
| New Jersey | 7 | #985 | #895 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 800 | #387 | 21 | #4,792 |
| 2024 | 921 | #339 | 36 | #3,305 |
| 2023 | 814 | #380 | 33 | #3,511 |
| 2022 | 843 | #375 | 37 | #3,248 |
| 2021 | 959 | #339 | 44 | #2,840 |
| 2020 | 784 | #397 | 43 | #2,819 |
| 2019 | 668 | #469 | 38 | #3,127 |
| 2018 | 527 | #585 | 43 | #2,822 |
| 2017 | 568 | #545 | 57 | #2,300 |
| 2016 | 433 | #678 | 77 | #1,910 |
| 2015 | 334 | #839 | 57 | #2,314 |
| 2014 | 239 | #1,072 | 63 | #2,165 |
| 2013 | 170 | #1,375 | 78 | #1,838 |
| 2012 | 180 | #1,308 | 79 | #1,853 |
| 2011 | 158 | #1,436 | 75 | #1,880 |
| 2010 | 126 | #1,683 | 69 | #1,991 |
| 2009 | 166 | #1,415 | 86 | #1,766 |
| 2008 | 108 | #1,954 | 67 | #2,078 |
| 2007 | 120 | #1,788 | 69 | #2,025 |
| 2006 | 134 | #1,603 | 81 | #1,731 |
| 2005 | 113 | #1,750 | 65 | #1,954 |
| 2004 | 143 | #1,438 | 66 | #1,866 |
| 2003 | 107 | #1,764 | 61 | #1,919 |
| 2002 | 92 | #1,926 | 65 | #1,778 |
| 2001 | 81 | #2,069 | 58 | #1,902 |
| 2000 | 68 | #2,293 | 52 | #1,982 |
| 1999 | 65 | #2,293 | 48 | #2,006 |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,945 | 39 | #2,294 |
| 1997 | 49 | #2,605 | 25 | #3,027 |
| 1996 | 38 | #3,113 | 28 | #2,716 |
| 1995 | 43 | #2,813 | 27 | #2,725 |
| 1994 | 35 | #3,265 | 32 | #2,425 |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,825 | 30 | #2,482 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,143 | 27 | #2,636 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,276 | 24 | #2,785 |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,664 | 27 | #2,526 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,175 | 34 | #2,086 |
| 1988 | 30 | #3,259 | 19 | #2,911 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,948 | 21 | #2,600 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,619 | 23 | #2,393 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,180 | 24 | #2,261 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,070 | 20 | #2,487 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,609 | 12 | #3,527 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,700 | 17 | #2,769 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,413 | 19 | #2,538 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,830 | 22 | #2,324 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,403 | 14 | #3,082 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,253 | 19 | #2,430 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,766 | 27 | #1,878 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,278 | 20 | #2,290 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,504 | 23 | #2,034 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,353 | 16 | #2,511 |
| 1973 | — | — | 13 | #2,788 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,671 | 8 | #3,795 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,915 | 13 | #2,747 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,581 | — | — |
| 1969 | — | — | 8 | #3,449 |
| 1967 | — | — | 9 | #2,872 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,242 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,231 | — | — |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,126 | 9 | #2,956 |
| 1961 | — | — | 5 | #4,361 |
| 1960 | — | — | 5 | #4,329 |
| 1959 | — | — | 5 | #4,281 |
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).