Kaylani
Kaylani was given to 1,675 girls in 2025, #185 among girls’ names; 11,877 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,800 Americans named Kaylani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 2 and 9.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaylani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaylani?
#185 among girls’ names, 2025
Kaylani rose from #1,054 in 2015 to #185 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.14 to 1.0 per 1,000.
1,675 babies in 2025, the peak
Kaylani peaked in 2025, when 1,675 girls were given it, #185 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 1,305 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,675 | #185 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 1,305 | #240 | 0.81 |
| 2023 | 1,250 | #246 | 0.78 |
| 2022 | 1,222 | #253 | 0.75 |
| 2021 | 1,126 | #281 | 0.69 |
| 2020 | 912 | #341 | 0.56 |
| 2019 | 763 | #410 | 0.45 |
| 2018 | 648 | #485 | 0.38 |
| 2017 | 435 | #675 | 0.25 |
| 2016 | 375 | #760 | 0.21 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 250 | #1,054 | 0.14 |
| 2014 | 204 | #1,195 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 170 | #1,376 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 176 | #1,336 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 188 | #1,268 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 160 | #1,433 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 147 | #1,541 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 161 | #1,466 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 125 | #1,741 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 103 | #1,948 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 88 | #2,112 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 60 | #2,723 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 57 | #2,750 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,913 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 43 | #3,221 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,024 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,530 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,467 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,038 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,646 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,781 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,190 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,568 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,494 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,081 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,829 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,198 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,016 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,488 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaylani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaylani has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kaylani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaylani, and how old are they?
11,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 11,877 Americans ever recorded as Kaylani. The median Kaylani alive today is 5 years old; half are between 2 and 9.
The 2020 Census counted 3,439 people named Kaylani (3,427 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,586 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 101 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,430 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 10,300 |
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 Kaylani born?
The states with the most babies named Kaylani are Texas, California and Florida, with 35% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 226 | #140 | 1.0× |
| California | 207 | #146 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 150 | #115 | 1.5× |
| New York | 106 | #152 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 89 | #110 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 75 | #133 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 55 | #183 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 49 | #166 | 1.2× |
| Arizona | 48 | #132 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 42 | #261 | 0.8× |
Where Kaylani is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kaylani is most over-represented in Florida: since 1987 it was given 1.5 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 Kaylani 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 50,392 babies since 1880, Kaylani is the third most given (24% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,675 of their 4,968 babies (34%), the most given that year.
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 Kaylani
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 Kaylani and names like it
- Compare Kaylani and KailaniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKaylani peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaylani since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Kaylani.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kaylani alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.