Dalani
Dalani was given to 104 girls in 2025, #1,884 among girls’ names; 687 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dalani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dalani?
#1,884 among girls’ names, 2025
Dalani rose from #8,103 in 2015 to #1,884 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 7.8 to 64.7 per million.
104 babies in 2025, the peak
Dalani peaked in 2025, when 104 girls were given it, #1,884 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 84 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 104 | #1,884 | 64.7 |
| 2024 | 84 | #2,238 | 51.8 |
| 2023 | 88 | #2,161 | 54.8 |
| 2022 | 57 | #2,934 | 34.8 |
| 2021 | 62 | #2,757 | 37.8 |
| 2020 | 45 | #3,408 | 27.8 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,679 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,197 | 14.7 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,402 | 13.9 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,500 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,103 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,315 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,527 | 10.8 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,823 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,287 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,597 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,684 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,241 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,029 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,683 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,919 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,575 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,274 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,660 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,354 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,598 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dalani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dalani has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 26 years of records.
Girls and boys named Dalani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dalani, and how old are they?
An estimated 683 Americans named Dalani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 2 and 9. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 241 people named Dalani (213 women and girls, 28 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 251 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,035 babies since 1880, Dalani is the third most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 104 of their 230 babies (45%), the most given that year.
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 Dalani
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 Dalani and names like it
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