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Leylani: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 263 in 2025. Its best rank was #971 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 Leylani in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#971 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Leylani: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 263 girls in 2025. Peak: #971 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 263 (2025).
In 2025, 263 US girls were named Leylani, making it the 971st most common girls’ name of the year, up 142 places from #1,113 in 2024. That is 43 more than the 220 girls named Leylani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #971, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 263. For comparison, it was #2,291 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Leylani in 27 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1999 with 7 babies. In all, 2,615 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,366 babies named Leylani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,883 US girls were named Leylani; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 263. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,111 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Leylani ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #610 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Leilani (56,491 babies since 1880) and Leilany (4,966 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Leylani 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 37 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 52 | #610 | #2,139 |
| Kansas | 5 | #639 | — |
| Illinois | 15 | #648 | #1,380 |
| Georgia | 16 | #666 | — |
| California | 44 | #707 | #1,228 |
| Washington | 8 | #779 | — |
| Arizona | 8 | #786 | #1,039 |
| Florida | 19 | #847 | #1,759 |
| Maryland | 5 | #936 | — |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #949 | — |
| Virginia | 7 | #997 | — |
| North Carolina | 9 | #1,022 | — |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,102 | — |
| New York | 10 | #1,379 | #2,127 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 263 | #971 | — | — |
| 2024 | 220 | #1,113 | — | — |
| 2023 | 213 | #1,145 | — | — |
| 2022 | 257 | #1,013 | — | — |
| 2021 | 225 | #1,101 | — | — |
| 2020 | 188 | #1,221 | — | — |
| 2019 | 153 | #1,449 | — | — |
| 2018 | 121 | #1,715 | — | — |
| 2017 | 140 | #1,571 | — | — |
| 2016 | 103 | #1,950 | — | — |
| 2015 | 82 | #2,291 | — | — |
| 2014 | 84 | #2,246 | — | — |
| 2013 | 60 | #2,860 | — | — |
| 2012 | 77 | #2,418 | — | — |
| 2011 | 53 | #3,160 | — | — |
| 2010 | 60 | #2,886 | — | — |
| 2009 | 62 | #2,840 | — | — |
| 2008 | 47 | #3,514 | — | — |
| 2007 | 50 | #3,364 | — | — |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,766 | — | — |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,194 | — | — |
| 2004 | 26 | #5,016 | — | — |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,334 | — | — |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,662 | — | — |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,567 | — | — |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,576 | — | — |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,129 | — | — |
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).