Girls' name · since 2020
Zailani
Zailani has 80 recorded births since 2020 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2024 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #29,697 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #6,816 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 80
- born since 2020
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Zailani is the #6816 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 80 recorded since 2020.
Zailani has 80 recorded births among girls since 2020, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #6816 as of the latest data, more common than 61% 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 2020 to 2025.
- #29,697 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #6,816 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 80 born since 2020
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Zailani ranks #29,697 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #6,816 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 80 born since 2020, peaking in the 2020s.
- #29,697 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #6,816 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 80
- born since 2020
- 2020s
- peak decade
Zailani's 80 recorded births place it above 58.94% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Zailani compares
80 21st 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
Zailani's all-time total is 79% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Zailani | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 80 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 18 | 21 | 19,840 |
Zailani's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Zailani's SSA record in two at 2023 and the more recent half accounts for 59% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 41%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2021, with only 9 births recorded -- set against the 2024 peak of 18, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Zailani popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–2025
- Peak year (2024)
- 18
- Annual births at peak, across 6 years of records
Zailani by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (80 births, 100% of the file).
2020s was Zailani's strongest decade.
80 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Zailani births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2020s
2020s
80 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 80 births (100% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Zailani: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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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, 2020–2025 (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 Zailani 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.