Keilani
Keilani was given to 383 girls in 2025, #727 among girls’ names; 5,309 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,270 Americans named Keilani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keilani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keilani?
#727 among girls’ names, 2025
Keilani rose from #1,548 in 2015 to #727 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.08 to 0.24 per 1,000.
466 babies in 2022, the peak
Keilani peaked in 2022, when 466 girls were given it, #632 among girls’ names. The 383 births of 2025 are 82% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 383 | #727 | 0.24 |
| 2024 | 376 | #751 | 0.23 |
| 2023 | 457 | #642 | 0.28 |
| 2022 | 466 | #632 | 0.28 |
| 2021 | 414 | #698 | 0.25 |
| 2020 | 360 | #758 | 0.22 |
| 2019 | 313 | #855 | 0.19 |
| 2018 | 263 | #997 | 0.15 |
| 2017 | 189 | #1,253 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 168 | #1,391 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 143 | #1,548 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 126 | #1,680 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 129 | #1,651 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 148 | #1,507 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 102 | #1,948 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 94 | #2,107 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 109 | #1,926 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 98 | #2,087 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 120 | #1,789 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 99 | #2,008 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 89 | #2,097 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 84 | #2,142 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 77 | #2,234 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 46 | #3,116 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,895 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 52 | #2,797 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 53 | #2,654 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 54 | #2,548 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,440 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,664 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 32 | #3,450 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,918 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,903 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,261 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,167 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,760 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,739 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,743 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,182 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,050 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,348 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,223 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,207 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Keilani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Keilani has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 43 years of records.
Girls and boys named Keilani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keilani, and how old are they?
5,270 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,309 Americans ever recorded as Keilani. The median Keilani alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 2,418 people named Keilani (2,397 women and girls, 21 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,920 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 59 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 153 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,290 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,770 |
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 Keilani born?
The states with the most babies named Keilani are Texas, California and Florida, with 42% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 72 | #464 | 1.0× |
| California | 54 | #598 | 1.8× |
| Florida | 21 | #782 | 1.2× |
| New York | 18 | #884 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 12 | #827 | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 12 | #631 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 11 | #832 | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 11 | #679 | 0.4× |
| Washington | 10 | #651 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #894 | 0.3× |
Where Keilani is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Keilani is most over-represented in California: since 1975 it was given 1.8 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 Keilani 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 25,463 babies since 1880, Keilani is the second most given (21% of them). In 2025 it was given to 383 of their 2,963 babies (13%), again the second 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 Keilani
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 Keilani and names like it
- Compare Keilani and KehlaniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKeilani peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keilani since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Keilani.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Keilani alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.