Ilani
Ilani was given to 104 girls in 2025, #1,890 among girls’ names; 749 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ilani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ilani?
#1,890 among girls’ names, 2025
Ilani rose from #7,092 in 2015 to #1,890 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 9.5 to 64.7 per million.
104 babies in 2025, the peak
Ilani peaked in 2025, when 104 girls were given it, #1,890 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 93 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 104 | #1,890 | 64.7 |
| 2024 | 93 | #2,076 | 57.4 |
| 2023 | 59 | #2,864 | 36.8 |
| 2022 | 59 | #2,875 | 36.0 |
| 2021 | 49 | #3,268 | 29.9 |
| 2020 | 42 | #3,569 | 26.0 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,815 | 23.2 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,270 | 19.4 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,133 | 11.6 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,264 | 11.3 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #7,092 | 9.5 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,769 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,336 | 11.4 |
| 2012 | 22 | #5,981 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,218 | 11.9 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,904 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,079 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,960 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,859 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,909 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,511 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,476 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,941 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,064 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,637 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,271 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,785 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,581 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ilani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ilani has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ilani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ilani, and how old are they?
An estimated 744 Americans named Ilani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 2 and 13. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 343 people named Ilani (342 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 351 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% 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 48,710 babies since 1880, Ilani is the seventh most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 104 of their 756 babies (14%), the second 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 Ilani
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 Ilani and names like it
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