Meaning not yet researched.
Lani: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 131 in 2025. Its best rank was #877 in 1947.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #877 in 1947; #1,603 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lani in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,603 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1947, at #877.
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Lani: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 131 girls in 2025. Peak: #877 in 1947 · most girls in one year: 143 (1979).
In 2025, 131 US girls were named Lani, making it the 1,603rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 302 places from #1,905 in 2024. That is 26 more than the 105 girls named Lani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #877, reached in 1947. The most girls given the name in a single year was 143, in 1979. For comparison, it was #2,673 in 2015 and #1,058 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lani in 91 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 5 babies. In all, 7,556 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 2.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,155 babies named Lani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 916 US girls were named Lani; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 131. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,269 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lani ranked highest in Indiana in 2025, at #878 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lana (57,449 babies since 1880), Lane (52,177 babies since 1880), Leni (1,962 babies since 1880) and Laney (14,360 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Layani, Lanyia and Laiani 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: Layani (341), Lanyia (267), Laiani (104), Layoni (81), Launie (33), Laioni (18), Launia (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 Lani in the open dataset we use.
Lani is listed as a nickname for Leilani.
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 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana | 7 | #878 | — |
| California | 22 | #1,170 | #1,778 |
| Florida | 12 | #1,212 | #1,582 |
| Texas | 20 | #1,293 | #2,506 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,683 | — |
| New York | 5 | #2,263 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 131 | #1,603 | — | — |
| 2024 | 105 | #1,905 | — | — |
| 2023 | 96 | #2,042 | 5 | #13,359 |
| 2022 | 98 | #1,999 | 6 | #11,704 |
| 2021 | 92 | #2,082 | — | — |
| 2020 | 82 | #2,210 | — | — |
| 2019 | 81 | #2,262 | — | — |
| 2018 | 73 | #2,451 | — | — |
| 2017 | 78 | #2,349 | — | — |
| 2016 | 80 | #2,356 | — | — |
| 2015 | 67 | #2,673 | — | — |
| 2014 | 72 | #2,506 | — | — |
| 2013 | 74 | #2,451 | — | — |
| 2012 | 71 | #2,554 | — | — |
| 2011 | 76 | #2,429 | — | — |
| 2010 | 90 | #2,180 | — | — |
| 2009 | 98 | #2,085 | — | — |
| 2008 | 95 | #2,131 | — | — |
| 2007 | 120 | #1,790 | — | — |
| 2006 | 127 | #1,668 | — | — |
| 2005 | 142 | #1,485 | — | — |
| 2004 | 132 | #1,524 | 6 | #10,789 |
| 2003 | 118 | #1,636 | — | — |
| 2002 | 130 | #1,474 | — | — |
| 2001 | 96 | #1,845 | 5 | #11,610 |
| 2000 | 86 | #1,959 | — | — |
| 1999 | 73 | #2,108 | — | — |
| 1998 | 66 | #2,176 | — | — |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,852 | — | — |
| 1996 | 45 | #2,738 | — | — |
| 1995 | 67 | #2,039 | — | — |
| 1994 | 62 | #2,174 | — | — |
| 1993 | 82 | #1,788 | — | — |
| 1992 | 89 | #1,695 | 6 | #8,021 |
| 1991 | 75 | #1,885 | 6 | #7,837 |
| 1990 | 89 | #1,660 | — | — |
| 1989 | 72 | #1,844 | — | — |
| 1988 | 65 | #1,900 | — | — |
| 1987 | 64 | #1,824 | — | — |
| 1986 | 65 | #1,778 | — | — |
| 1985 | 79 | #1,544 | 5 | #7,129 |
| 1984 | 65 | #1,689 | — | — |
| 1983 | 78 | #1,479 | — | — |
| 1982 | 95 | #1,321 | 6 | #6,072 |
| 1981 | 113 | #1,176 | — | — |
| 1980 | 142 | #1,020 | — | — |
| 1979 | 143 | #999 | — | — |
| 1978 | 98 | #1,260 | 5 | #6,358 |
| 1977 | 68 | #1,588 | — | — |
| 1976 | 79 | #1,364 | — | — |
| 1975 | 76 | #1,391 | — | — |
| 1974 | 76 | #1,366 | — | — |
| 1973 | 64 | #1,491 | — | — |
| 1972 | 78 | #1,308 | — | — |
| 1971 | 96 | #1,191 | — | — |
| 1970 | 133 | #953 | 5 | #5,126 |
| 1969 | 96 | #1,133 | — | — |
| 1968 | 95 | #1,095 | — | — |
| 1967 | 102 | #1,022 | — | — |
| 1966 | 84 | #1,164 | 5 | #4,276 |
| 1965 | 57 | #1,471 | 5 | #4,219 |
| 1964 | 85 | #1,200 | 5 | #4,363 |
| 1963 | 75 | #1,272 | — | — |
| 1962 | 88 | #1,172 | — | — |
| 1961 | 100 | #1,097 | 11 | #2,633 |
| 1960 | 105 | #1,050 | 5 | #4,353 |
| 1959 | 97 | #1,085 | — | — |
| 1958 | 100 | #1,048 | — | — |
| 1957 | 93 | #1,088 | — | — |
| 1956 | 106 | #994 | — | — |
| 1955 | 80 | #1,117 | 6 | #3,714 |
| 1954 | 109 | #924 | 9 | #2,860 |
| 1953 | 86 | #1,045 | 5 | #4,110 |
| 1952 | 67 | #1,166 | 8 | #2,987 |
| 1951 | 80 | #1,041 | 7 | #3,225 |
| 1950 | 76 | #1,058 | 9 | #2,681 |
| 1949 | 67 | #1,107 | 7 | #3,171 |
| 1948 | 74 | #1,020 | 8 | #2,911 |
| 1947 | 101 | #877 | — | — |
| 1946 | 73 | #982 | 10 | #2,485 |
| 1945 | 67 | #930 | — | — |
| 1944 | 59 | #1,024 | 7 | #2,996 |
| 1943 | 36 | #1,383 | — | — |
| 1942 | 39 | #1,290 | — | — |
| 1941 | 43 | #1,143 | 7 | #3,011 |
| 1940 | 37 | #1,209 | 8 | #2,774 |
| 1939 | 15 | #2,170 | 6 | #3,302 |
| 1938 | 16 | #2,066 | — | — |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,485 | — | — |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,377 | — | — |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,957 | — | — |
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).