Meaning not yet researched.
Lailani: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 227 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,070 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 Lailani in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,070 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Lailani: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 227 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,070 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 227 (2025).
In 2025, 227 US girls were named Lailani, making it the 1,070th most common girls’ name of the year, up 363 places from #1,433 in 2024. That is 72 more than the 155 girls named Lailani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,070, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 227. For comparison, it was #2,069 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lailani in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 5 babies. In all, 2,629 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,113 babies named Lailani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,616 US girls were named Lailani; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 227. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,080 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lailani ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #598 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Laylani (3,184 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lailonie, Lailanee and Lailonni 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: Lailonie (48), Lailanee (23), Lailonni (19).
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 Lailani 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 33 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 18 | #598 | — |
| Louisiana | 7 | #650 | — |
| South Carolina | 7 | #652 | — |
| Alabama | 6 | #774 | — |
| Maryland | 6 | #792 | — |
| Michigan | 9 | #828 | — |
| Illinois | 10 | #891 | #1,794 |
| Virginia | 8 | #901 | — |
| Ohio | 10 | #925 | #1,584 |
| Tennessee | 7 | #949 | — |
| North Carolina | 9 | #1,021 | — |
| Texas | 28 | #1,021 | #2,754 |
| Florida | 15 | #1,032 | #1,316 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,097 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,128 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,180 | — |
| California | 15 | #1,536 | #2,243 |
| New York | 7 | #1,749 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 227 | #1,070 | — | — |
| 2024 | 155 | #1,433 | — | — |
| 2023 | 159 | #1,411 | — | — |
| 2022 | 190 | #1,262 | — | — |
| 2021 | 194 | #1,220 | — | — |
| 2020 | 188 | #1,220 | — | — |
| 2019 | 140 | #1,547 | — | — |
| 2018 | 131 | #1,628 | — | — |
| 2017 | 123 | #1,731 | — | — |
| 2016 | 109 | #1,877 | — | — |
| 2015 | 95 | #2,069 | — | — |
| 2014 | 78 | #2,360 | — | — |
| 2013 | 74 | #2,450 | — | — |
| 2012 | 84 | #2,252 | — | — |
| 2011 | 73 | #2,499 | — | — |
| 2010 | 68 | #2,662 | — | — |
| 2009 | 65 | #2,771 | — | — |
| 2008 | 63 | #2,843 | — | — |
| 2007 | 64 | #2,843 | — | — |
| 2006 | 59 | #2,929 | — | — |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,776 | — | — |
| 2004 | 45 | #3,366 | — | — |
| 2003 | 42 | #3,444 | — | — |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,934 | — | — |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,206 | — | — |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,391 | — | — |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,922 | — | — |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,312 | — | — |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,727 | — | — |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,216 | — | — |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,683 | — | — |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,656 | — | — |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,686 | — | — |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,897 | — | — |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,581 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,763 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,387 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,258 | — | — |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,054 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,039 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,932 | — | — |
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).