Meaning not yet researched.
Kylani: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 94 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,863 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,863 in 2024; #2,031 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kylani in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,031 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,863.
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Kylani: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 94 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,863 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 108 (2024).
In 2025, 94 US girls were named Kylani, making it the 2,031st most common girls’ name of the year, down 168 places from #1,863 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 108 girls named Kylani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,863, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 108. For comparison, it was #8,710 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kylani in 22 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2003 with 5 babies. In all, 681 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 447 babies named Kylani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 571 US girls were named Kylani; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 108. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,099 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kylani ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #848 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), Kelani (1,774 babies since 1880) and Keylani (814 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Kylani 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 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 5 | #848 | — |
| Illinois | 9 | #970 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,292 | — |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,471 | — |
| Florida | 9 | #1,499 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,589 | — |
| Texas | 10 | #2,138 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 94 | #2,031 | — | — |
| 2024 | 108 | #1,863 | — | — |
| 2023 | 57 | #2,956 | — | — |
| 2022 | 74 | #2,456 | — | — |
| 2021 | 57 | #2,944 | — | — |
| 2020 | 57 | #2,872 | — | — |
| 2019 | 48 | #3,306 | — | — |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,409 | — | — |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,640 | — | — |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,221 | — | — |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,710 | — | — |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,308 | — | — |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,381 | — | — |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,448 | — | — |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,820 | — | — |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,864 | — | — |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,538 | — | — |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,247 | — | — |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,182 | — | — |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,974 | — | — |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,530 | — | — |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,161 | — | — |
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).