Xolani
Xolani was given to 209 girls in 2025, #1,124 among girls’ names; 1,111 Americans have been recorded with it since 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,110 Americans named Xolani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 3 years old and half are between 2 and 5.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Xolani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Xolani?
#1,124 among girls’ names, 2025
Xolani rose from #7,988 in 2015 to #1,124 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.01 to 0.13 per 1,000.
217 babies in 2024, the peak
Xolani peaked in 2024, when 217 babies were given it (209 girls, #1,155 among girls’ names). The 214 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 99% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 209 | #1,124 | 0.13 |
| 2024 | 209 | #1,155 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 177 | #1,298 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 130 | #1,637 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 96 | #2,023 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 63 | #2,680 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,646 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,452 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 21 | #6,028 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,729 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,988 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 8 | #13,009 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,916 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,404 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,755 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,691 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,397 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,709 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Xolani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,111 Americans recorded as Xolani, 94% are girls and 6% boys. In 2025 it went to 209 girls and 5 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Xolani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Xolani, and how old are they?
1,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,111 Americans ever recorded as Xolani. The median Xolani alive today is 3 years old; half are between 2 and 5.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 31 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,070 |
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.
Where are babies named Xolani born?
The states with the most babies named Xolani are California, Texas and New York, with 53% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 34 | #876 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 28 | #1,033 | 0.9× |
| New York | 15 | #1,025 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #901 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 10 | #980 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 10 | #923 | 0.7× |
| Colorado | 8 | #701 | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 8 | #931 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 6 | #2,136 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,687 | 0.3× |
Where Xolani is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Xolani is most over-represented in California: since 2004 it was given 1.1 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 Xolani with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Xolani
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 Xolani and names like it
- Compare Xolani and KailanyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sXolani peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Xolani since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Xolani.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Xolani alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with XMost given first.