Girls' name · since 2016
Lehlani
Lehlani has 296 recorded births since 2016 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2023 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #16,021 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #5,093 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 296
- born since 2016
- 2020s
- peak decade
Lehlani currently ranks #5093 among girls' names in America, with 296 babies recorded since 2016.
Lehlani has 296 recorded births among girls since 2016, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #5093 as of the latest data, more common than 71% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2016 to 2025.
- #16,021 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #5,093 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 296 born since 2016
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Lehlani ranks #16,021 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #5,093 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 296 born since 2016, peaking in the 2020s.
- #16,021 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #5,093 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 296
- born since 2016
- 2020s
- peak decade
Lehlani's 296 recorded births place it above 77.83% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
The state file records this name in 3 jurisdictions, led by Texas.
How Lehlani compares
296 45th 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
Lehlani's all-time total is 21% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Lehlani | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 296 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 45 | 21 | 19,840 |
Lehlani's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Lehlani's full recorded timeline at 2021, 65% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 35% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2016, with just 8 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2023 peak of 45 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Lehlani popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2016–2025
- Peak year (2023)
- 45
- Annual births at peak, across 10 years of records
Lehlani by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (224 births, 76% of the file).
2020s was Lehlani's strongest decade.
224 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 76% of all-time use.
Lehlani births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s 72
2010s
72 births
- 2020s
2020s
224 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 224 births (76% of all-time use).
Lehlani by state
Where Lehlani concentrates geographically, total births since 2016
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 32 | 10.8% |
| #2 | California | | 11 | 3.7% |
| #3 | Louisiana | | 5 | 1.7% |
32 of 296 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
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- Texas records the most Lehlanis (32 births) -- see the full state breakdown if geography matters to your decision. Texas names
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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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, 2016–2025 (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 Lehlani 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.