Girls' name · since 2020
Zylani
78 babies named Zylani in U.S. Social Security records since 2020, with the highest year being 2025. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #29,989 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #4,874 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 78
- born since 2020
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Zylani is the #4874 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 78 recorded since 2020.
Social Security Administration records show Zylani recorded 78 times among girls since 2020, holding rank #4874 nationally today, ahead of 72% 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 2020 to 2025.
- #29,989 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #4,874 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 78 born since 2020
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Zylani ranks #29,989 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #4,874 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 78 born since 2020, peaking in the 2020s.
- #29,989 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #4,874 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 78
- born since 2020
- 2020s
- peak decade
Zylani's 78 recorded births place it above 58.54% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Zylani compares
78 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
Zylani's all-time total is 79% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Zylani | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 78 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 28 | 21 | 19,840 |
Zylani's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Zylani splits its recorded history at 2023: 77% of all births land in the more recent half, 23% 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 28 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Zylani popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 28
- Annual births at peak, across 6 years of records
Zylani by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (78 births, 100% of the file).
2020s was Zylani's strongest decade.
78 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Zylani births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2020s
2020s
78 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 78 births (100% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Zylani: 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 Zylani 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.