Girls' name · since 2022
Zhalani
Zhalani has 15 recorded births since 2022 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2025 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #50,375 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #10,072 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 15
- born since 2022
- 2020s
- peak decade
15 babies have been named Zhalani since 2022, making it today's #10072 girls' name.
Social Security Administration records show Zhalani recorded 15 times among girls since 2022, holding rank #10072 nationally today, ahead of 42% 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 2022 to 2025.
- #50,375 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #10,072 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 15 born since 2022
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Zhalani ranks #50,375 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #10,072 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 15 born since 2022, peaking in the 2020s.
- #50,375 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #10,072 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 15
- born since 2022
- 2020s
- peak decade
Zhalani's 15 recorded births place it above 30.35% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Zhalani compares
15 5th 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
Zhalani's all-time total is 96% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Zhalani | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 15 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 10 | 21 | 19,840 |
Zhalani's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Zhalani splits its recorded history at 2025: 67% of all births land in the more recent half, 33% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 2022 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2025 peak of 10 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Zhalani popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 10
- Annual births at peak, across 4 years of records
Zhalani by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (15 births, 100% of the file).
2020s was Zhalani's strongest decade.
15 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Zhalani births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2020s
2020s
15 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 15 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, 2022–2025 (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 Zhalani 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.