Jalani
Jalani was given to 228 girls in 2025, #1,068 among girls’ names; 2,346 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,330 Americans named Jalani 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 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jalani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jalani?
#1,068 among girls’ names, 2025
Jalani rose from #3,876 in 2015 to #1,068 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.02 to 0.14 per 1,000.
252 babies in 2023, the peak
Jalani peaked in 2023, when 252 babies were given it (226 girls, #1,090 among girls’ names). The 244 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 97% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 228 | #1,068 | 16 | #5,702 |
| 2024 | 202 | #1,184 | 19 | #5,139 |
| 2023 | 226 | #1,090 | 26 | #4,156 |
| 2022 | 188 | #1,274 | 33 | #3,494 |
| 2021 | 136 | #1,546 | 15 | #5,872 |
| 2020 | 96 | #1,969 | 18 | #5,118 |
| 2019 | 105 | #1,904 | 19 | #5,033 |
| 2018 | 77 | #2,371 | 27 | #3,927 |
| 2017 | 57 | #2,912 | 17 | #5,386 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,882 | 17 | #5,410 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #3,876 | 25 | #4,123 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,948 | 10 | #7,799 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,109 | 15 | #5,772 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,202 | 26 | #3,939 |
| 2011 | 48 | #3,373 | 19 | #4,887 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,667 | 18 | #5,121 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,621 | 12 | #6,976 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,908 | 18 | #5,139 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,787 | 17 | #5,293 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,915 | 14 | #5,899 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,722 | 23 | #3,978 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,326 | 30 | #3,242 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,735 | 18 | #4,505 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,523 | 31 | #2,967 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,989 | 24 | #3,550 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,217 | 19 | #4,112 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,730 | 24 | #3,308 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,591 | 24 | #3,228 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 20 | #3,510 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 15 | #4,263 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 11 | #5,291 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 9 | #6,042 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 13 | #4,551 | |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,108 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 9 | #5,691 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 9 | #5,547 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 5 | #8,414 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 5 | #5,419 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Jalani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,346 Americans recorded as Jalani, 71% are girls and 29% boys. In 2025 it went to 228 girls and 16 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jalani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jalani, and how old are they?
2,330 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,346 Americans ever recorded as Jalani. The median Jalani alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 953 people named Jalani (497 women and girls, 456 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,160 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 73 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 558 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,690 |
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 Jalani born?
The states with the most babies named Jalani are Florida, Georgia and Texas, with 37% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 30 | #589 | 1.8× |
| Georgia | 22 | #517 | 1.8× |
| Texas | 22 | #1,206 | 0.4× |
| Louisiana | 18 | #243 | 1.8× |
| South Carolina | 13 | #388 | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 12 | #766 | 0.8× |
| Mississippi | 12 | #226 | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #867 | 0.9× |
| Alabama | 11 | #456 | 1.6× |
| Virginia | 9 | #799 | 0.6× |
Where Jalani is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jalani is most over-represented in Florida: since 1973 it was given 1.8 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 Jalani 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 11,213 babies since 1880, Jalani is the second most given (21% of them). In 2025 it was given to 244 of their 1,179 babies (21%), again the second most given.
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 Jalani
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 Jalani and names like it
- Compare Jalani and JaylaniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJalani peaked in 2023.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jalani since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Jalani.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jalani alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.