Kani
Kani is given to both girls and boys: 13 girls and 12 boys were given it in 2025 (#8,095 among girls’ names and #7,000 among boys’, #8,950 among all names counting both); 914 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kani?
#7,000 among boys’ names, 2025
Kani fell from #5,400 in 2015 to #7,000 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.9 to 7.0 per million.
57 babies in 2006, the peak
Kani peaked in 2006, when 57 babies were given it (46 boys, #2,604 among boys’ names). The 25 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 44% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,095 | 12 | #7,000 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,773 | 15 | #6,030 |
| 2023 | under 5 | 12 | #7,097 | |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,565 | 24 | #4,364 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,673 | 18 | #5,230 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,058 | 18 | #5,135 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,893 | 18 | #5,250 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,842 | 25 | #4,148 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,325 | 9 | #8,497 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,238 | 14 | #6,186 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,359 | 17 | #5,400 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,567 | 14 | #6,145 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,561 | 13 | #6,437 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,724 | 18 | #5,135 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,728 | 26 | #3,947 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,489 | 29 | #3,673 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,432 | 32 | #3,436 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,416 | 32 | #3,458 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,266 | 23 | #4,295 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,228 | 46 | #2,604 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,698 | 35 | #2,984 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,964 | 31 | #3,184 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,015 | 26 | #3,485 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,637 | 17 | #4,605 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,525 | 25 | #3,455 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,428 | 27 | #3,180 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,869 | 21 | #3,641 |
| 1998 | under 5 | 9 | #6,562 | |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,250 | 17 | #3,961 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,131 | 12 | #5,031 |
| 1995 | under 5 | 10 | #5,702 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 7 | #7,203 |
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 Kani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 914 Americans recorded as Kani, 29% are girls and 71% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kani, and how old are they?
An estimated 903 Americans named Kani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 9 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 772 people named Kani (301 women and girls, 471 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 753 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above 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 29,731 babies since 1880, Kani is the fifth most given (3.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 995 babies (2.5%), 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 Kani
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 Kani and names like it
- Compare Kani and KaneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKani peaked in 2006.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kani since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Kani.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kani alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.