Meaning not yet researched.
Leilani: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 3,792 in 2025. Its best rank was #59 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #59 in 2022; #60 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Leilani in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#60 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #59.
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Leilani: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 3,792 girls in 2025. Peak: #59 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 3,868 (2022).
In 2025, 3,792 US girls were named Leilani, making it the 60th most common girls’ name of the year, up 6 places from #66 in 2024. That is 427 more than the 3,365 girls named Leilani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #59, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 3,868. For comparison, it was #178 in 2015 and #1,075 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Leilani in 105 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 5 babies. In all, 56,491 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 20,964 babies named Leilani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 30,441 US girls were named Leilani; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 3,868. In 2025 that was about 1 in 424 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Leilani ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #15 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 25 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Leilany (4,966 babies since 1880) and Leylani (2,615 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lelani, Leilanie and Leilanni are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Lani.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Lelani (1,010), Leilanie (977), Leilanni (524), Leiloni (467), Leylanie (417), Lehlani (296), Liliani (234), Leylany (234), Leilanny (207), Leilanii (168), Leighlani (138), Leilahni (135), and more.
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 6 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 37 | #15 | #71 |
| Texas | 667 | #24 | #151 |
| Arizona | 120 | #35 | #55 |
| Nevada | 44 | #36 | #114 |
| California | 575 | #37 | #87 |
| Georgia | 156 | #41 | #213 |
| Nebraska | 33 | #42 | #479 |
| Illinois | 160 | #46 | #123 |
| Florida | 290 | #46 | #139 |
| Maryland | 70 | #48 | #244 |
| Louisiana | 61 | #50 | #248 |
| Hawaii | 12 | #51 | #45 |
| Mississippi | 34 | #53 | #319 |
| Oklahoma | 50 | #57 | #259 |
| North Carolina | 137 | #61 | #231 |
| Delaware | 12 | #63 | #142 |
| South Carolina | 55 | #67 | #491 |
| Washington | 80 | #72 | #197 |
| Virginia | 84 | #74 | #184 |
| Oregon | 40 | #76 | #254 |
| Arkansas | 32 | #79 | #474 |
| Alabama | 50 | #82 | #528 |
| Colorado | 58 | #86 | #187 |
| Kansas | 33 | #92 | #389 |
| Indiana | 65 | #98 | #312 |
| Tennessee | 71 | #101 | #566 |
| Connecticut | 28 | #101 | #144 |
| District of Columbia | 8 | #101 | #283 |
| Michigan | 73 | #105 | #378 |
| New Jersey | 69 | #108 | #209 |
| Kentucky | 39 | #110 | #603 |
| Pennsylvania | 89 | #115 | #288 |
| New York | 131 | #117 | #229 |
| Ohio | 86 | #125 | #439 |
| South Dakota | 9 | #125 | — |
| Missouri | 47 | #128 | #410 |
| Iowa | 24 | #132 | #290 |
| Rhode Island | 7 | #138 | — |
| Wisconsin | 35 | #151 | #185 |
| Minnesota | 33 | #162 | #530 |
| Idaho | 13 | #168 | #345 |
| New Hampshire | 7 | #193 | — |
| West Virginia | 8 | #219 | — |
| Utah | 21 | #228 | #356 |
| Massachusetts | 25 | #229 | #285 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3,792 | #60 | — | — |
| 2024 | 3,365 | #66 | — | — |
| 2023 | 3,562 | #61 | — | — |
| 2022 | 3,868 | #59 | — | — |
| 2021 | 3,485 | #68 | — | — |
| 2020 | 2,892 | #92 | — | — |
| 2019 | 2,703 | #107 | 6 | #11,594 |
| 2018 | 2,519 | #120 | — | — |
| 2017 | 2,284 | #129 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,971 | #159 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,807 | #178 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,540 | #218 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,391 | #231 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,415 | #224 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,304 | #244 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,226 | #268 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,243 | #265 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,231 | #276 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,188 | #286 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,067 | #310 | — | — |
| 2005 | 954 | #335 | 5 | #12,571 |
| 2004 | 937 | #341 | 7 | #9,544 |
| 2003 | 883 | #353 | 7 | #9,247 |
| 2002 | 660 | #440 | — | — |
| 2001 | 593 | #468 | — | — |
| 2000 | 505 | #523 | — | — |
| 1999 | 375 | #630 | — | — |
| 1998 | 296 | #738 | — | — |
| 1997 | 275 | #765 | — | — |
| 1996 | 209 | #932 | — | — |
| 1995 | 165 | #1,083 | — | — |
| 1994 | 194 | #959 | — | — |
| 1993 | 186 | #997 | — | — |
| 1992 | 154 | #1,147 | — | — |
| 1991 | 155 | #1,146 | — | — |
| 1990 | 157 | #1,116 | — | — |
| 1989 | 148 | #1,122 | — | — |
| 1988 | 144 | #1,094 | — | — |
| 1987 | 140 | #1,090 | — | — |
| 1986 | 159 | #989 | — | — |
| 1985 | 154 | #992 | — | — |
| 1984 | 141 | #1,015 | — | — |
| 1983 | 169 | #895 | — | — |
| 1982 | 173 | #889 | — | — |
| 1981 | 203 | #797 | — | — |
| 1980 | 223 | #746 | — | — |
| 1979 | 153 | #955 | — | — |
| 1978 | 177 | #839 | — | — |
| 1977 | 146 | #949 | — | — |
| 1976 | 139 | #930 | — | — |
| 1975 | 110 | #1,073 | — | — |
| 1974 | 128 | #966 | — | — |
| 1973 | 122 | #976 | — | — |
| 1972 | 95 | #1,150 | — | — |
| 1971 | 120 | #1,029 | — | — |
| 1970 | 125 | #1,001 | — | — |
| 1969 | 121 | #978 | — | — |
| 1968 | 115 | #969 | — | — |
| 1967 | 107 | #986 | — | — |
| 1966 | 86 | #1,148 | — | — |
| 1965 | 92 | #1,093 | — | — |
| 1964 | 84 | #1,207 | — | — |
| 1963 | 98 | #1,101 | — | — |
| 1962 | 117 | #994 | — | — |
| 1961 | 99 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 1960 | 92 | #1,133 | — | — |
| 1959 | 80 | #1,198 | — | — |
| 1958 | 99 | #1,054 | — | — |
| 1957 | 86 | #1,140 | — | — |
| 1956 | 87 | #1,112 | — | — |
| 1955 | 59 | #1,314 | — | — |
| 1954 | 52 | #1,399 | — | — |
| 1953 | 56 | #1,304 | — | — |
| 1952 | 59 | #1,243 | — | — |
| 1951 | 61 | #1,199 | — | — |
| 1950 | 74 | #1,075 | — | — |
| 1949 | 66 | #1,117 | — | — |
| 1948 | 74 | #1,022 | — | — |
| 1947 | 75 | #1,028 | — | — |
| 1946 | 74 | #973 | — | — |
| 1945 | 72 | #893 | — | — |
| 1944 | 80 | #852 | — | — |
| 1943 | 97 | #790 | — | — |
| 1942 | 99 | #759 | — | — |
| 1941 | 88 | #770 | — | — |
| 1940 | 85 | #756 | — | — |
| 1939 | 98 | #690 | — | — |
| 1938 | 101 | #685 | — | — |
| 1937 | 81 | #758 | — | — |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,264 | — | — |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,052 | — | — |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,656 | — | — |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,602 | — | — |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,764 | — | — |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,259 | — | — |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,209 | — | — |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,841 | — | — |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,282 | — | — |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,249 | — | — |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,535 | — | — |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,709 | — | — |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,852 | — | — |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,257 | — | — |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,545 | — | — |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,967 | — | — |
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).