Elani
Elani was given to 322 girls in 2025, #844 among girls’ names; 2,485 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,470 Americans named Elani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elani?
#844 among girls’ names, 2025
Elani rose from #2,691 in 2015 to #844 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.04 to 0.20 per 1,000.
322 babies in 2025, the peak
Elani peaked in 2025, when 322 girls were given it, #844 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 260 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 322 | #844 | 0.20 |
| 2024 | 260 | #995 | 0.16 |
| 2023 | 190 | #1,234 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 216 | #1,133 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 189 | #1,244 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 167 | #1,323 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 118 | #1,750 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 104 | #1,916 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 74 | #2,442 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 72 | #2,506 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 66 | #2,691 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 57 | #2,977 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 53 | #3,087 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,656 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 53 | #3,145 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 55 | #3,052 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 47 | #3,474 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,294 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,238 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,491 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,742 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,309 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 35 | #3,895 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 19 | #5,956 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,351 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,440 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,863 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,464 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,531 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,906 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,181 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,303 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,040 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 27 | #3,891 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,594 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,449 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elani has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elani, and how old are they?
2,470 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,485 Americans ever recorded as Elani. The median Elani alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 1,047 people named Elani (1,029 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,174 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 | 87 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 503 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,880 |
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 Elani born?
The states with the most babies named Elani are Texas, California and Florida, with 45% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 62 | #514 | 1.1× |
| California | 43 | #720 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 20 | #805 | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 19 | #526 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 15 | #689 | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 15 | #667 | 0.8× |
| New York | 11 | #1,254 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 10 | #733 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 10 | #903 | 0.3× |
| Virginia | 9 | #788 | 0.5× |
Where Elani is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Elani is most over-represented in Florida: since 1986 it was given 1.4 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 Elani 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 504,435 babies since 1880, Elani is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 322 of their 16,235 babies (2.0%), the sixth 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 Elani
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 Elani and names like it
- Compare Elani and ElaineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sElani peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elani since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Elani.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Elani alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.