Kalani — #339 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Kalani

The Social Security Administration has registered 9,471 babies named Kalani between 1963 and 2024, spanning 62 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kalani currently holds the #339 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 959 babies received it in a single year. Kalani is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,216 additional births since 1959.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kalani performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 4,316 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Kalani shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,215 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Kalani in 41 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kalani 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 9,471 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.