Meaning not yet researched.
Nalani: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 754 in 2025. Its best rank was #414 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 Nalani in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#414 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Nalani: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 754 girls in 2025. Peak: #414 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 754 (2025).
In 2025, 754 US girls were named Nalani, making it the 414th most common girls’ name of the year, up 117 places from #531 in 2024. That is 177 more than the 577 girls named Nalani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #414, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 754. For comparison, it was #1,282 in 2015 and #3,863 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nalani in 75 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1946 with 7 babies. In all, 7,954 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 3,381 babies named Nalani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,854 US girls were named Nalani; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 754. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,132 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nalani ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #155 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Naylani (1,206 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nailani, Nalini and Naelani 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: Nailani (500), Nalini (355), Naelani (306), Nalanie (304), Nahlani (170), Naloni (160), Nalany (118), Naylanie (58), Nailany (57), Nalanii (53), Nalahni (48), Nayloni (43), 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.
No nicknames listed for Nalani 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 18 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 6 | #155 | — |
| South Carolina | 21 | #239 | — |
| North Carolina | 45 | #244 | #1,534 |
| Georgia | 39 | #262 | #1,277 |
| Pennsylvania | 39 | #286 | #1,086 |
| Maryland | 18 | #296 | — |
| Oklahoma | 14 | #307 | — |
| Alabama | 16 | #312 | — |
| Illinois | 34 | #321 | #843 |
| Michigan | 28 | #325 | #1,436 |
| Texas | 93 | #370 | #1,688 |
| Florida | 49 | #381 | #1,035 |
| Louisiana | 12 | #387 | — |
| New Jersey | 20 | #399 | #1,141 |
| Ohio | 28 | #412 | — |
| Mississippi | 7 | #429 | — |
| Indiana | 16 | #440 | #1,217 |
| Connecticut | 7 | #443 | — |
| New York | 39 | #448 | #1,194 |
| Tennessee | 18 | #450 | — |
| Wisconsin | 11 | #476 | #946 |
| Virginia | 17 | #481 | #918 |
| Nevada | 6 | #490 | — |
| Arizona | 14 | #508 | #822 |
| California | 65 | #514 | #1,046 |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #555 | — |
| Oregon | 6 | #606 | — |
| Minnesota | 8 | #644 | — |
| Iowa | 5 | #655 | — |
| Washington | 10 | #663 | — |
| Colorado | 8 | #688 | — |
| Kentucky | 5 | #834 | — |
| Missouri | 6 | #895 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 754 | #414 | — | — |
| 2024 | 577 | #531 | — | — |
| 2023 | 507 | #593 | — | — |
| 2022 | 549 | #557 | — | — |
| 2021 | 503 | #595 | — | — |
| 2020 | 491 | #593 | — | — |
| 2019 | 456 | #641 | — | — |
| 2018 | 413 | #706 | — | — |
| 2017 | 335 | #816 | — | — |
| 2016 | 269 | #988 | — | — |
| 2015 | 190 | #1,282 | — | — |
| 2014 | 166 | #1,389 | — | — |
| 2013 | 184 | #1,285 | — | — |
| 2012 | 223 | #1,117 | — | — |
| 2011 | 199 | #1,207 | — | — |
| 2010 | 211 | #1,155 | — | — |
| 2009 | 158 | #1,473 | — | — |
| 2008 | 137 | #1,651 | — | — |
| 2007 | 183 | #1,331 | — | — |
| 2006 | 136 | #1,588 | — | — |
| 2005 | 130 | #1,572 | — | — |
| 2004 | 134 | #1,514 | — | — |
| 2003 | 123 | #1,577 | — | — |
| 2002 | 84 | #2,059 | — | — |
| 2001 | 68 | #2,350 | — | — |
| 2000 | 46 | #3,054 | — | — |
| 1999 | 66 | #2,277 | — | — |
| 1998 | 46 | #2,876 | — | — |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,093 | — | — |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,833 | — | — |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,312 | — | — |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,585 | — | — |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,487 | — | — |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,185 | — | — |
| 1991 | 26 | #4,018 | — | — |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,597 | — | — |
| 1989 | 30 | #3,455 | — | — |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,267 | — | — |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,224 | — | — |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,891 | — | — |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,924 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,821 | — | — |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,819 | — | — |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,783 | — | — |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,156 | — | — |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,096 | — | — |
| 1979 | 14 | #5,009 | — | — |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,392 | — | — |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,841 | — | — |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,091 | — | — |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,933 | — | — |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,078 | — | — |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,451 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,921 | — | — |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,010 | — | — |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,682 | — | — |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,198 | — | — |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,813 | — | — |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,301 | — | — |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,757 | — | — |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,294 | — | — |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,537 | — | — |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,374 | — | — |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,256 | — | — |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,162 | — | — |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,932 | — | — |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,908 | — | — |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,232 | — | — |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,757 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,276 | — | — |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,368 | — | — |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,915 | — | — |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,863 | — | — |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,110 | — | — |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,294 | — | — |
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).