Girls' name · since 2017
Kulani
28 babies named Kulani in U.S. Social Security records since 2017, with the highest year being 2017. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #41,815 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,620 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 28
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
28 babies have been named Kulani since 2017, making it today's #16620 girls' name.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Kulani has been recorded 28 times among girls since 2017, currently ranked #16620 nationally and more common than 4% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2017 to 2025.
- #41,815 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #16,620 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 28 born since 2017
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Kulani ranks #41,815 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #16,620 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 28 born since 2017, peaking in the 2020s.
- #41,815 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,620 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 28
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
Kulani's 28 recorded births place it above 41.88% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Kulani compares
28 10th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Kulani's all-time total is 93% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Kulani | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 28 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 7 | 21 | 19,840 |
Kulani's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Kulani's full recorded timeline at 2021, 54% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 46% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 2021, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2017 peak of 7 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Kulani popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–2025
- Peak year (2017)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 9 years of records
Kulani by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (15 births, 54% of the file).
2020s was Kulani's strongest decade.
15 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 54% of all-time use.
Kulani births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
13 births
- 2020s
2020s
15 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 15 births (54% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Kulani: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2017–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Kulani draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.