Nailani is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Nalani, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Nailani: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 134 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,577 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 Nailani in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,577 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Nailani: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 134 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,577 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 134 (2025).
In 2025, 134 US girls were named Nailani, making it the 1,577th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,426 places from #3,003 in 2024. That is 79 more than the 55 girls named Nailani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,577, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 134. For comparison, it was #9,336 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nailani in 19 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2006 with 7 babies. In all, 500 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 348 babies named Nailani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 416 US girls were named Nailani; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 134. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,995 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nailani ranked highest in Tennessee in 2025, at #1,086 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Nalani (7,954 babies since 1880) and Naylani (1,206 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 Nailani 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 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,086 | — |
| Texas | 17 | #1,444 | — |
| Florida | 9 | #1,513 | — |
| California | 15 | #1,552 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,552 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,565 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,611 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,635 | — |
| New York | 7 | #1,779 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 134 | #1,577 | — | — |
| 2024 | 55 | #3,003 | — | — |
| 2023 | 44 | #3,562 | — | — |
| 2022 | 41 | #3,752 | — | — |
| 2021 | 45 | #3,473 | — | — |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,621 | — | — |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,412 | — | — |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,177 | — | — |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,162 | — | — |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,630 | — | — |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,336 | — | — |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,663 | — | — |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,649 | — | — |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,568 | — | — |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,020 | — | — |
| 2010 | 10 | #11,007 | — | — |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,323 | — | — |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,926 | — | — |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,657 | — | — |
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).