Alani — #178 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Alani

The Social Security Administration has registered 16,949 babies named Alani between 1978 and 2024, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Alani currently holds the #178 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 1,700 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Alani performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 7,975 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Alani shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 2,774 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Alani in 42 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Alani in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 16,949 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.