Kahlani
Kahlani was given to 306 girls in 2025, #875 among girls’ names; 2,220 Americans have been recorded with it since 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,210 Americans named Kahlani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 7.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kahlani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kahlani?
#875 among girls’ names, 2025
Kahlani rose from #5,374 in 2015 to #875 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.01 to 0.19 per 1,000.
325 babies in 2024, the peak
Kahlani peaked in 2024, when 325 girls were given it, #835 among girls’ names. The 306 births of 2025 are 94% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 306 | #875 | 0.19 |
| 2024 | 325 | #835 | 0.20 |
| 2023 | 263 | #978 | 0.16 |
| 2022 | 261 | #1,003 | 0.16 |
| 2021 | 269 | #965 | 0.16 |
| 2020 | 215 | #1,123 | 0.13 |
| 2019 | 199 | #1,180 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 150 | #1,467 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 105 | #1,923 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 57 | #2,948 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,374 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,755 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,013 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,184 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,891 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,454 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,730 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kahlani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kahlani has been given almost only to girls: 7 boys in 17 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kahlani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kahlani, and how old are they?
2,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,220 Americans ever recorded as Kahlani. The median Kahlani alive today is 4 years old; half are between 2 and 7.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 31 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,180 |
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.
Where are babies named Kahlani born?
The states with the most babies named Kahlani are Texas, Florida and South Carolina, with 33% of its births recorded by state in 2025; South Carolina is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 40 | #752 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 25 | #681 | 1.3× |
| South Carolina | 23 | #214 | 1.8× |
| Georgia | 22 | #519 | 2.1× |
| Illinois | 20 | #503 | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 13 | #582 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 11 | #838 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #837 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 10 | #940 | 1.8× |
| Virginia | 10 | #726 | 1.4× |
Where Kahlani is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kahlani is most over-represented in Georgia: since 2003 it was given 2.1 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 Kahlani with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Kahlani?
Kahlani is a less common spelling of Kalani: SSA has recorded 2,220 Kahlani and 12,515 Kalani since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 46,115 babies since 1880, Kahlani is the fifth most given (4.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 306 of their 4,976 babies (6.1%), again the fifth 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 Kahlani
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 Kahlani and names like it
- Compare Kahlani and KalaniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKahlani peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kahlani since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Kahlani.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kahlani alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.