Girls' name · since 2018
Zehlani
Zehlani has 48 recorded births since 2018 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2025 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #35,593 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #7,109 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 48
- born since 2018
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Zehlani is the #7109 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 48 recorded since 2018.
Social Security Administration records show Zehlani recorded 48 times among girls since 2018, holding rank #7109 nationally today, ahead of 59% of girls, peaking in the 2020s. This profile derives year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2018 to 2025.
- #35,593 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #7,109 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 48 born since 2018
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Zehlani ranks #35,593 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #7,109 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 48 born since 2018, peaking in the 2020s.
- #35,593 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #7,109 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 48
- born since 2018
- 2020s
- peak decade
Zehlani's 48 recorded births place it above 50.79% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Zehlani compares
48 15th 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
Zehlani's all-time total is 87% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Zehlani | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 48 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 16 | 21 | 19,840 |
Zehlani's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Zehlani's full recorded timeline at 2023, 79% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 21% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2018, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2025 peak of 16 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Zehlani popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2018–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 16
- Annual births at peak, across 8 years of records
Zehlani by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (43 births, 90% of the file).
2020s was Zehlani's strongest decade.
43 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 90% of all-time use.
Zehlani births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
- 2020s
2020s
43 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 43 births (90% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Zehlani: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2025)
Similar record span (~7 yrs)
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, 2018–2025 (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 Zehlani 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.