Meaning not yet researched.
Kelani: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 137 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,252 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,252 in 2020; #1,542 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kelani in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,542 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #1,252.
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Kelani: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 137 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,252 in 2020 · most girls in one year: 182 (2020).
In 2025, 137 US girls were named Kelani, making it the 1,542nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 182 places from #1,360 in 2024. That is 31 fewer than the 168 girls named Kelani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,252, reached in 2020. That year also had the most girls given the name: 182. For comparison, it was #3,951 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kelani in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 5 babies. In all, 1,774 US babies have been given the name, 96% of them girls and 3.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 952 babies named Kelani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,325 US girls were named Kelani; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 182. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,732 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kelani ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #456 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kehlani (14,532 babies since 1880), Keilani (5,309 babies since 1880), Keilany (1,147 babies since 1880) and Keylani (814 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kyloni, Kylanii and Kylahni 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: Kyloni (38), Kylanii (17), Kylahni (15), Kylanie (5), Kelonni (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 Kelani 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 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 10 | #456 | — |
| Mississippi | 5 | #587 | — |
| Alabama | 7 | #678 | — |
| Georgia | 13 | #774 | — |
| Indiana | 6 | #984 | — |
| Florida | 12 | #1,208 | #2,256 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,272 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,287 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,312 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,360 | — |
| Texas | 17 | #1,436 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 137 | #1,542 | — | — |
| 2024 | 168 | #1,360 | — | — |
| 2023 | 141 | #1,520 | — | — |
| 2022 | 165 | #1,390 | 5 | #13,367 |
| 2021 | 147 | #1,464 | — | — |
| 2020 | 182 | #1,252 | 7 | #10,102 |
| 2019 | 124 | #1,691 | 6 | #11,490 |
| 2018 | 113 | #1,805 | 7 | #10,227 |
| 2017 | 92 | #2,101 | 8 | #9,306 |
| 2016 | 56 | #2,995 | 7 | #10,233 |
| 2015 | 38 | #3,951 | 7 | #10,122 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,591 | 8 | #9,234 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,744 | — | — |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,475 | 5 | #13,286 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,727 | — | — |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,068 | — | — |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,429 | 6 | #11,762 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,225 | — | — |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,910 | — | — |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,997 | — | — |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,412 | — | — |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,617 | — | — |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,790 | — | — |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,882 | — | — |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,532 | — | — |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,372 | — | — |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,469 | — | — |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,701 | — | — |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,908 | — | — |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,042 | — | — |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,282 | — | — |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,022 | — | — |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,062 | — | — |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,088 | — | — |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,368 | — | — |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,352 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,983 | — | — |
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).