Meaning not yet researched.
Naylani: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 296 in 2025. Its best rank was #897 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 Naylani in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#897 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Naylani: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 296 girls in 2025. Peak: #897 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 296 (2025).
In 2025, 296 US girls were named Naylani, making it the 897th most common girls’ name of the year, up 940 places from #1,837 in 2024. That is 186 more than the 110 girls named Naylani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #897, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 296. For comparison, it was #5,787 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Naylani in 24 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2002 with 6 babies. In all, 1,206 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 796 babies named Naylani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 982 US girls were named Naylani; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 296. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,430 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Naylani ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #495 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).
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 Naylani 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 32 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 11 | #495 | — |
| Oregon | 6 | #607 | — |
| Florida | 27 | #647 | — |
| Arizona | 10 | #668 | — |
| South Carolina | 7 | #671 | — |
| North Carolina | 15 | #675 | — |
| Georgia | 14 | #738 | — |
| New Jersey | 10 | #760 | — |
| California | 37 | #810 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #854 | — |
| Colorado | 6 | #874 | — |
| Washington | 7 | #880 | — |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #889 | — |
| Illinois | 10 | #906 | — |
| Virginia | 8 | #911 | — |
| Minnesota | 5 | #958 | — |
| Texas | 30 | #977 | — |
| New York | 12 | #1,216 | #2,165 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,393 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 296 | #897 | — | — |
| 2024 | 110 | #1,837 | — | — |
| 2023 | 109 | #1,845 | — | — |
| 2022 | 92 | #2,100 | — | — |
| 2021 | 116 | #1,764 | — | — |
| 2020 | 73 | #2,413 | — | — |
| 2019 | 51 | #3,155 | — | — |
| 2018 | 54 | #3,036 | — | — |
| 2017 | 50 | #3,235 | — | — |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,603 | — | — |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,787 | — | — |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,147 | — | — |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,057 | — | — |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,845 | — | — |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,780 | — | — |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,574 | — | — |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,765 | — | — |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,317 | — | — |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,744 | — | — |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,266 | — | — |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,078 | — | — |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,516 | — | — |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,619 | — | — |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,888 | — | — |
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).