Girls' name · since 2001

Yolani

161 babies named Yolani in U.S. Social Security records since 2001, with the highest year being 2022. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.

#22,095 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#8,663 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
161
born since 2001
2020s
peak decade

Yolani currently ranks #8663 among girls' names in America, with 161 babies recorded since 2001.

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Yolani has been recorded 161 times among girls since 2001, currently ranked #8663 nationally and more common than 50% 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 2001 to 2025.

  • #22,095 of 72,339 all-time among girls
  • #8,663 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
  • 161 born since 2001
  • 2020s peak decade

Data updated Aug 2026

The verdict

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Yolani ranks #22,095 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #8,663 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 161 born since 2001, peaking in the 2020s.

#22,095 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#8,663 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
161
born since 2001
2020s
peak decade
0%100%Median name50%49.9%
Yolani vs. every other girls name in current SSA rankings
Below the archive median
All-time archive position

Yolani's 161 recorded births place it above 69.45% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.

National only
State-record footprint

No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.

How Yolani compares

161 33rd 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

Yolani's all-time total is 57% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.

Metric Yolani Median girls name (Kyann) #1 girls name (Olivia)
All-time total births 161 376 567,345
Peak-year births 15 21 19,840

Yolani's usage pattern, beyond the headline number

Yolani splits its recorded history at 2013: 64% of all births land in the more recent half, 36% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 2001 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2022 peak of 15 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.

Yolani popularity over time

Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2001–2025

Outside the top 1,000
Peak year (2022)
15
Annual births at peak, across 25 years of records
05101520 20012005200820112017202020232025 12

Yolani by decade

2020s is the heaviest window (64 births, 40% of the file).

2020s was Yolani's strongest decade.

64 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 40% of all-time use.

Yolani births by decade

Total births in each ten-year window

births

What this shows Peak: 2020s at 64 births (40% of all-time use).

Source U.S. Social Security Administration · Baby Names As of August 2026

Frequently Asked Questions

How popular is the name Yolani?
161 babies have been named Yolani since 2001. All-time, it sits at #22,095 of 72,339 girls' names by recorded births. In 2025, it ranks #8,663 of 17,297 among girls. The peak year was 2022 with 15 births.
Where does Yolani sit in the SSA name archive?
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Yolani ranks #22,095 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #8,663 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. All-time ordinal matches browse popularity (total births DESC); the current ordinal uses the 2025 SSA file. See /methodology#corpus-placement.
When was Yolani most popular?
Yolani was most popular in the 2020s decade with 64 total births. The single peak year was 2022.
How long has the name Yolani been used?
Records for Yolani go back to 2001, giving 25 years of history through 2025.
What names are similar to Yolani?
Names with a similar sound or spelling include Yolanda, Yolonda, Yolande, Yola, and 4 more. These share a common prefix and are also used for girls.

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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span

Two nationwide peer axes for Yolani: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.

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, 2001–2025 (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 Yolani 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.