Khani
Khani was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,038 among boys’ names; 201 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Khani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Khani?
#13,038 among boys’ names, 2025
Khani entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #13,038 in 2025.
21 babies in 2013, the peak
Khani peaked in 2013, when 21 babies were given it (14 boys, #6,089 among boys’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 5 | #13,038 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 6 | #11,707 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 6 | #11,646 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 9 | #8,423 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 10 | #7,946 | |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,944 | 6 | #11,524 |
| 2017 | under 5 | 7 | #10,274 | |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,621 | 11 | #7,392 |
| 2014 | under 5 | 10 | #7,868 | |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,928 | 14 | #6,089 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | under 5 | 9 | #8,544 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 9 | #8,458 | |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,487 | 15 | #5,905 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,814 | 9 | #8,696 |
| 2008 | under 5 | 5 | #13,655 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 9 | #8,600 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 10 | #7,747 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 11 | #6,889 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 7 | #9,483 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 6 | #10,095 |
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 Khani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 201 Americans recorded as Khani, 13% are girls and 87% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Khani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Khani, and how old are they?
An estimated 199 Americans named Khani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 9 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 210 people named Khani (65 women and girls, 145 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 176 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Khani?
Khani is a less common spelling of Kani: SSA has recorded 201 Khani and 914 Kani since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 21,482 babies since 1880, Khani is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 788 babies (<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 Khani
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 Khani and names like it
- Compare Khani and KaniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKhani peaked in 2013.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Khani.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Khani alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.