Meaning not yet researched.
Nylani: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 91 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,073 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 Nylani in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,073 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Nylani: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 91 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,073 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 91 (2025).
In 2025, 91 US girls were named Nylani, making it the 2,073rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 172 places from #2,245 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 84 girls named Nylani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,073, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 91. For comparison, it was #15,915 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nylani in 16 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2007 with 5 babies. In all, 515 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 395 babies named Nylani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 475 US girls were named Nylani; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 91. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,662 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nylani ranked highest in Connecticut in 2025, at #605 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Neilani, Nilani and Neylani are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Neilani (294), Nilani (239), Neylani (228), Nelani (209), Nehlani (111), Nialani (90), Nyloni (23), Neolani (6), Nylanii (5), Nylahni (5).
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 Nylani 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 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | 5 | #605 | — |
| Georgia | 12 | #845 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,396 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,398 | — |
| New York | 9 | #1,491 | — |
| Florida | 9 | #1,516 | — |
| Texas | 6 | #3,202 | — |
| California | 5 | #3,412 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
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).