Girls' name · since 2023
Zaelani
Zaelani has 24 recorded births since 2023 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2023 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #43,880 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #11,854 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 24
- born since 2023
- 2020s
- peak decade
24 babies have been named Zaelani since 2023, making it today's #11854 girls' name.
Zaelani has 24 recorded births among girls since 2023, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #11854 as of the latest data, more common than 31% 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 2023 to 2025.
- #43,880 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #11,854 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 24 born since 2023
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Zaelani ranks #43,880 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #11,854 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 24 born since 2023, peaking in the 2020s.
- #43,880 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #11,854 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 24
- born since 2023
- 2020s
- peak decade
Zaelani's 24 recorded births place it above 39.32% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Zaelani compares
24 9th 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
Zaelani's all-time total is 94% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Zaelani | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 24 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 8 | 21 | 19,840 |
Zaelani's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Zaelani's full recorded timeline at 2024, 67% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 33% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2023, with just 8 recorded births.
Zaelani popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–2025
- Peak year (2023)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 3 years of records
Zaelani by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (24 births, 100% of the file).
2020s was Zaelani's strongest decade.
24 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Zaelani births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2020s
2020s
24 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 24 births (100% of all-time use).
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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, 2023–2025 (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 Zaelani 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.