Jelani — #1755 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Jelani

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,651 babies named Jelani between 1973 and 2024, spanning 52 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jelani currently holds the #1755 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 151 babies received it in a single year. Jelani is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 874 additional births since 1975.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jelani performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 1,161 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Jelani shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 794 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Jelani in 21 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jelani in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 4,651 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.