Qilani is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Keilani, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Qilani: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #16,696 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 Qilani in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#16,696 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Qilani: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 girls in 2025. Peak: #16,696 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 5 (2025).
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Qilani, making it the 16,696th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #16,696, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 5. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Qilani in 1 year of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2025 with 5 babies. In all, 5 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 5 babies named Qilani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5 US girls were named Qilani; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 5. In 2025 that was about 1 in 321,453 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Keilani (5,309 babies since 1880), Kelani (1,774 babies since 1880) and Kylani (681 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 Qilani in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,696 | — | — |
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).