Meaning not yet researched.
Kaylani: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,675 in 2025. Its best rank was #185 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Kaylani in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#185 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Kaylani: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,675 girls in 2025. Peak: #185 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 1,675 (2025).
In 2025, 1,675 US girls were named Kaylani, making it the 185th most common girls’ name of the year, up 55 places from #240 in 2024. That is 370 more than the 1,305 girls named Kaylani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #185, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,675. For comparison, it was #1,054 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kaylani in 39 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1987 with 6 babies. In all, 11,877 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 7,490 babies named Kaylani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 9,711 US girls were named Kaylani; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,675. In 2025 that was about 1 in 960 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kaylani ranked highest in Nevada in 2025, at #89 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 2 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Kailani (12,823 babies since 1880), Kalani (12,515 babies since 1880), Kahlani (2,220 babies since 1880) and Kailany (1,840 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kaylonie, Kaylonni and Kaylanee 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: Kaylonie (94), Kaylonni (78), Kaylanee (73), Kaylannie (33), Kayeloni (22), Kaylonii (6), Kaylianie (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 Kaylani 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 11 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 24 | #89 | #498 |
| Rhode Island | 9 | #98 | — |
| Delaware | 8 | #105 | — |
| North Carolina | 89 | #110 | #1,494 |
| Mississippi | 21 | #111 | — |
| Florida | 150 | #115 | #637 |
| South Carolina | 36 | #122 | — |
| New Mexico | 12 | #123 | — |
| Arizona | 48 | #132 | #906 |
| Georgia | 75 | #133 | #1,635 |
| Texas | 226 | #140 | #1,583 |
| California | 207 | #146 | #636 |
| New York | 106 | #152 | #987 |
| New Jersey | 49 | #166 | #753 |
| District of Columbia | 5 | #171 | — |
| Louisiana | 24 | #175 | #839 |
| Illinois | 55 | #183 | #949 |
| Connecticut | 18 | #184 | #420 |
| Massachusetts | 29 | #192 | #384 |
| Wisconsin | 28 | #198 | #804 |
| Virginia | 41 | #202 | — |
| Kansas | 16 | #207 | — |
| Tennessee | 38 | #208 | — |
| Washington | 33 | #222 | — |
| Alabama | 21 | #228 | — |
| Maryland | 23 | #229 | — |
| Oklahoma | 17 | #234 | — |
| Indiana | 30 | #237 | — |
| Michigan | 36 | #256 | — |
| Arkansas | 12 | #258 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 42 | #261 | #1,178 |
| Kentucky | 16 | #279 | — |
| Colorado | 21 | #292 | #732 |
| Idaho | 8 | #292 | — |
| Oregon | 12 | #311 | — |
| Ohio | 35 | #320 | — |
| Minnesota | 14 | #387 | — |
| Missouri | 15 | #406 | — |
| Utah | 8 | #513 | — |
| Iowa | 5 | #626 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,675 | #185 | — | — |
| 2024 | 1,305 | #240 | — | — |
| 2023 | 1,250 | #246 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,222 | #253 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,126 | #281 | — | — |
| 2020 | 912 | #341 | — | — |
| 2019 | 763 | #410 | — | — |
| 2018 | 648 | #485 | — | — |
| 2017 | 435 | #675 | — | — |
| 2016 | 375 | #760 | — | — |
| 2015 | 250 | #1,054 | — | — |
| 2014 | 204 | #1,195 | — | — |
| 2013 | 170 | #1,376 | — | — |
| 2012 | 176 | #1,336 | — | — |
| 2011 | 188 | #1,268 | — | — |
| 2010 | 160 | #1,433 | — | — |
| 2009 | 147 | #1,541 | — | — |
| 2008 | 161 | #1,466 | — | — |
| 2007 | 125 | #1,741 | — | — |
| 2006 | 103 | #1,948 | — | — |
| 2005 | 88 | #2,113 | — | — |
| 2004 | 60 | #2,727 | — | — |
| 2003 | 57 | #2,753 | — | — |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,917 | — | — |
| 2001 | 43 | #3,225 | — | — |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,029 | — | — |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,536 | — | — |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,471 | — | — |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,043 | — | — |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,651 | — | — |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,786 | — | — |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,196 | — | — |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,574 | — | — |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,501 | — | — |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,087 | — | — |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,835 | — | — |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,204 | — | — |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,021 | — | — |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,493 | — | — |
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).