Leilani
Leilani was given to 3,792 girls in 2025, #60 among girls’ names; 56,491 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 55,000 Americans named Leilani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leilani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Leilani mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Leilani is “a female given name from Hawaiian.”
Borrowed from Hawaiian Leilani.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Leilani?
#60 among girls’ names, 2025
Leilani rose from #178 in 2015 to #60 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 1.0 to 2.4 per 1,000.
3,868 babies in 2022, the peak
Leilani peaked in 2022, when 3,868 girls were given it, #59 among girls’ names. The 3,792 births of 2025 are 98% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3,792 | #60 | 2.4 |
| 2024 | 3,365 | #66 | 2.1 |
| 2023 | 3,562 | #61 | 2.2 |
| 2022 | 3,868 | #59 | 2.4 |
| 2021 | 3,485 | #68 | 2.1 |
| 2020 | 2,892 | #92 | 1.8 |
| 2019 | 2,703 | #107 | 1.6 |
| 2018 | 2,519 | #120 | 1.5 |
| 2017 | 2,284 | #129 | 1.3 |
| 2016 | 1,971 | #159 | 1.1 |
Every recorded year (105)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,807 | #178 | 1.0 |
| 2014 | 1,540 | #218 | 0.86 |
| 2013 | 1,391 | #231 | 0.79 |
| 2012 | 1,415 | #224 | 0.80 |
| 2011 | 1,304 | #244 | 0.74 |
| 2010 | 1,226 | #268 | 0.69 |
| 2009 | 1,243 | #265 | 0.68 |
| 2008 | 1,231 | #276 | 0.65 |
| 2007 | 1,188 | #286 | 0.62 |
| 2006 | 1,067 | #310 | 0.56 |
| 2005 | 954 | #335 | 0.52 |
| 2004 | 937 | #341 | 0.51 |
| 2003 | 883 | #353 | 0.48 |
| 2002 | 660 | #440 | 0.37 |
| 2001 | 593 | #468 | 0.33 |
| 2000 | 505 | #523 | 0.28 |
| 1999 | 375 | #630 | 0.21 |
| 1998 | 296 | #738 | 0.17 |
| 1997 | 275 | #765 | 0.16 |
| 1996 | 209 | #931 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 165 | #1,080 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 194 | #958 | 0.11 |
| 1993 | 186 | #995 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 154 | #1,145 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 155 | #1,143 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 157 | #1,112 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 148 | #1,119 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 144 | #1,093 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 140 | #1,090 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 159 | #989 | 0.09 |
| 1985 | 154 | #992 | 0.09 |
| 1984 | 141 | #1,015 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 169 | #895 | 0.10 |
| 1982 | 173 | #889 | 0.10 |
| 1981 | 203 | #797 | 0.12 |
| 1980 | 223 | #746 | 0.13 |
| 1979 | 153 | #955 | 0.10 |
| 1978 | 177 | #839 | 0.12 |
| 1977 | 146 | #949 | 0.10 |
| 1976 | 139 | #930 | 0.09 |
| 1975 | 110 | #1,073 | 0.08 |
| 1974 | 128 | #966 | 0.09 |
| 1973 | 122 | #976 | 0.08 |
| 1972 | 95 | #1,150 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 120 | #1,029 | 0.07 |
| 1970 | 125 | #1,001 | 0.07 |
| 1969 | 121 | #978 | 0.07 |
| 1968 | 115 | #969 | 0.07 |
| 1967 | 107 | #986 | 0.06 |
| 1966 | 86 | #1,148 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 92 | #1,093 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 84 | #1,207 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 98 | #1,101 | 0.05 |
| 1962 | 117 | #994 | 0.06 |
| 1961 | 99 | #1,104 | 0.05 |
| 1960 | 92 | #1,132 | 0.05 |
| 1959 | 80 | #1,197 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 99 | #1,053 | 0.05 |
| 1957 | 86 | #1,139 | 0.04 |
| 1956 | 87 | #1,111 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 59 | #1,313 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 52 | #1,398 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 56 | #1,303 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 59 | #1,242 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 61 | #1,198 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 74 | #1,074 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 66 | #1,116 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 74 | #1,021 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 75 | #1,027 | 0.04 |
| 1946 | 74 | #972 | 0.05 |
| 1945 | 72 | #893 | 0.06 |
| 1944 | 80 | #852 | 0.06 |
| 1943 | 97 | #790 | 0.07 |
| 1942 | 99 | #759 | 0.07 |
| 1941 | 88 | #770 | 0.07 |
| 1940 | 85 | #756 | 0.07 |
| 1939 | 98 | #690 | 0.09 |
| 1938 | 101 | #685 | 0.09 |
| 1937 | 81 | #758 | 0.08 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,262 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,050 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,655 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,601 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,762 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,258 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,207 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,840 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,280 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,248 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,533 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,708 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,850 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,255 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,543 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,965 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Leilani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leilani has been given almost only to girls: 25 boys in 105 years of records.
Girls and boys named Leilani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leilani, and how old are they?
55,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 56,491 Americans ever recorded as Leilani. The median Leilani alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 29,592 people named Leilani (29,544 women and girls, 48 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 35,263 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 366 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,170 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,920 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,580 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 14,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 35,000 |
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 Leilani born?
The states with the most babies named Leilani are Texas, California and Florida, with 41% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 667 | #24 | 1.2× |
| California | 575 | #37 | 1.9× |
| Florida | 290 | #46 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 160 | #46 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 156 | #41 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 137 | #61 | 0.7× |
| New York | 131 | #117 | 0.7× |
| Arizona | 120 | #35 | 1.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 89 | #115 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 86 | #125 | 0.4× |
Where Leilani is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Leilani is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1917 it was given 9.0 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 Leilani 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 68,429 babies since 1880, Leilani is the most given (83% of them). In 2025 it was given to 3,792 of their 4,659 babies (81%), again the 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 Leilani
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 Leilani and names like it
- Compare Leilani and LeilanyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLeilani peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Leilani since 1910.
- Hawaiian namesWiktionary’s origin for Leilani: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Leilani.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Leilani alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.