Meaning not yet researched.
Khelani: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 79 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,736 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,736 in 2021; #2,311 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Khelani in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,311 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #1,736.
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Khelani: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 79 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,736 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 119 (2021).
In 2025, 79 US girls were named Khelani, making it the 2,311th most common girls’ name of the year, down 144 places from #2,167 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 88 girls named Khelani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,736, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 119. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Khelani in 10 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2016 with 29 babies. In all, 843 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 587 babies named Khelani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 843 US girls were named Khelani; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 119. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,345 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Khelani ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #729 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Khylani, Khilani and Kheilani are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Khylani (91), Khilani (32), Kheilani (30), Khelany (18), Kheylani (14), Khelanie (10), Kheilany (8).
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 Khelani 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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 6 | #729 | — |
| Georgia | 10 | #953 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,580 | — |
| New York | 5 | #2,258 | — |
| Texas | 6 | #3,122 | — |
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).