Meaning not yet researched.
Kehlani: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,981 in 2025. Its best rank was #149 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 99.7% of babies named Kehlani in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#149 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Kehlani: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,981 girls in 2025. Peak: #149 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 1,981 (2025).
In 2025, 1,981 US girls were named Kehlani, making it the 149th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1 place from #150 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 1,973 girls named Kehlani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #149, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,981. For comparison, it was #3,279 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kehlani in 11 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2015 with 50 babies. In all, 14,532 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 11,319 babies named Kehlani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 14,431 US girls were named Kehlani; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,981. In 2025 that was about 1 in 811 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kehlani ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #24 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 9 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Keilani (5,309 babies since 1880), Kelani (1,774 babies since 1880), Keilany (1,147 babies since 1880) and Keylani (814 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kealani, Kehaulani and Kilani are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kealani (545), Kehaulani (331), Kilani (281), Kehlany (190), Kelahni (177), Kehlanii (126), Kehlanie (111), Kelany (108), Keloni (86), Kelanie (85), Kehlanni (70), Keilanie (61), 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 Kehlani 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 8 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 46 | #24 | — |
| Louisiana | 63 | #45 | — |
| Georgia | 111 | #75 | — |
| Alabama | 52 | #76 | — |
| New Mexico | 16 | #80 | — |
| Rhode Island | 10 | #81 | — |
| South Carolina | 48 | #84 | — |
| North Carolina | 108 | #92 | — |
| Arkansas | 28 | #100 | — |
| Florida | 156 | #108 | #1,575 |
| Texas | 265 | #115 | #3,545 |
| Alaska | 6 | #122 | — |
| Hawaii | 7 | #125 | — |
| Maryland | 36 | #128 | — |
| Michigan | 62 | #135 | — |
| Tennessee | 54 | #137 | — |
| Oklahoma | 27 | #139 | — |
| Virginia | 55 | #140 | — |
| Connecticut | 22 | #141 | — |
| Arizona | 44 | #143 | — |
| North Dakota | 7 | #150 | — |
| Illinois | 61 | #163 | — |
| Indiana | 42 | #164 | — |
| Nevada | 15 | #171 | — |
| South Dakota | 7 | #176 | — |
| Kentucky | 26 | #182 | — |
| Delaware | 5 | #199 | — |
| New Jersey | 42 | #201 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 56 | #204 | — |
| California | 159 | #209 | #2,105 |
| Colorado | 29 | #216 | — |
| Wisconsin | 26 | #217 | — |
| New York | 79 | #220 | — |
| Ohio | 52 | #222 | — |
| Kansas | 14 | #228 | — |
| Washington | 31 | #232 | — |
| West Virginia | 7 | #249 | — |
| Missouri | 24 | #259 | — |
| Oregon | 13 | #283 | — |
| Iowa | 10 | #339 | — |
| Massachusetts | 17 | #343 | — |
| Utah | 13 | #348 | — |
| Minnesota | 14 | #388 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
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).