Meaning not yet researched.
Xolani: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 209 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,124 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 98% of babies named Xolani in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,124 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Xolani: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 209 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,124 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 209 (2025).
In 2025, 209 US girls were named Xolani, making it the 1,124th most common girls’ name of the year, up 31 places from #1,155 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 209 girls named Xolani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,124, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 209. For comparison, it was #7,992 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Xolani in 18 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2004 with 5 babies. In all, 1,111 US babies have been given the name, 94% of them girls and 6.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 937 babies named Xolani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 976 US girls were named Xolani; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 209. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,690 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Xolani ranked highest in Colorado in 2025, at #701 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Xolany and Xolanii are summarised on this page.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Xolany (17), Xolanii (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 Xolani 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 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado | 8 | #701 | — |
| California | 34 | #876 | — |
| North Carolina | 11 | #901 | — |
| Illinois | 10 | #923 | — |
| Virginia | 8 | #931 | — |
| Georgia | 10 | #980 | — |
| New York | 15 | #1,025 | — |
| Texas | 28 | #1,033 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,202 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,405 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,688 | — |
| Florida | 6 | #2,136 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 209 | #1,124 | 5 | #13,821 |
| 2024 | 209 | #1,155 | 8 | #9,840 |
| 2023 | 177 | #1,298 | 11 | #7,705 |
| 2022 | 130 | #1,637 | 11 | #7,741 |
| 2021 | 96 | #2,023 | 10 | #8,131 |
| 2020 | 63 | #2,680 | 8 | #9,519 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,647 | 14 | #6,394 |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,453 | 5 | #14,006 |
| 2017 | 21 | #6,032 | — | — |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,734 | — | — |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,992 | — | — |
| 2014 | 8 | #13,015 | — | — |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,921 | — | — |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,411 | — | — |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,763 | — | — |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,700 | — | — |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,403 | — | — |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,716 | — | — |
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).