Girls' name · since 2017
Dlani
Since 2017, U.S. Social Security records show 46 babies named Dlani, peaking in 2023. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- #35,909 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,563 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 46
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
Dlani currently ranks #14563 among girls' names in America, with 46 babies recorded since 2017.
Dlani has 46 recorded births among girls since 2017, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #14563 as of the latest data, more common than 16% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2017 to 2025.
- #35,909 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #14,563 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 46 born since 2017
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Dlani ranks #35,909 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #14,563 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 46 born since 2017, peaking in the 2020s.
- #35,909 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,563 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 46
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
Dlani's 46 recorded births place it above 50.1% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Dlani compares
46 15th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Dlani's all-time total is 88% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Dlani | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 46 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 15 | 21 | 19,840 |
Dlani's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Dlani splits its recorded history at 2022: 70% of all births land in the more recent half, 30% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 2017 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2023 peak of 15 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Dlani popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–2025
- Peak year (2023)
- 15
- Annual births at peak, across 9 years of records
Dlani by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (41 births, 89% of the file).
2020s was Dlani's strongest decade.
41 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 89% of all-time use.
Dlani births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
- 2020s
2020s
41 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 41 births (89% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2017–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Dlani draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.