Ailani
Ailani was given to 1,807 girls in 2025, #168 among girls’ names; 7,905 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,860 Americans named Ailani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 9.
Ailani was given to 857 more girls in 2025 than in 2024, the #4 gain in babies among girls’ names.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ailani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ailani?
#168 among girls’ names, 2025
Ailani rose from #1,199 in 2015 to #168 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.12 to 1.1 per 1,000.
1,807 babies in 2025, the peak
Ailani peaked in 2025, when 1,807 girls were given it, #168 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 950 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,807 | #168 | 1.1 |
| 2024 | 950 | #327 | 0.59 |
| 2023 | 507 | #591 | 0.32 |
| 2022 | 680 | #467 | 0.41 |
| 2021 | 581 | #532 | 0.35 |
| 2020 | 556 | #542 | 0.34 |
| 2019 | 423 | #685 | 0.25 |
| 2018 | 359 | #759 | 0.21 |
| 2017 | 277 | #952 | 0.16 |
| 2016 | 301 | #915 | 0.17 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 208 | #1,199 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 106 | #1,894 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 76 | #2,385 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 92 | #2,080 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 106 | #1,886 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 92 | #2,137 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 112 | #1,876 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 90 | #2,207 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 118 | #1,804 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 124 | #1,692 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 106 | #1,837 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 82 | #2,172 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 49 | #3,041 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,769 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,070 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,309 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,239 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,159 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,818 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,582 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ailani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ailani has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 30 years of records.
Girls and boys named Ailani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ailani, and how old are they?
7,860 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 7,905 Americans ever recorded as Ailani. The median Ailani alive today is 4 years old; half are between 2 and 9.
The 2020 Census counted 2,182 people named Ailani (2,168 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,939 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 7 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,050 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,800 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Ailani born?
The states with the most babies named Ailani are California, Texas and Florida, with 42% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 340 | #84 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 314 | #79 | 1.7× |
| Florida | 104 | #167 | 0.9× |
| New York | 103 | #158 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 83 | #114 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 74 | #127 | 1.2× |
| Arizona | 56 | #112 | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 53 | #205 | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 52 | #149 | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 43 | #192 | 0.6× |
Where Ailani is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ailani is most over-represented in Texas: since 1996 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ailani with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 116,108 babies since 1880, Ailani is the fourth most given (6.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,807 of their 14,006 babies (13%), again the fourth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ailani
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ailani and names like it
- Compare Ailani and AlanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAilani peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ailani since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Ailani.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ailani alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.