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Ailani

#168 in 2025Girls' name

Possible Hawaiian or Spanish name connections; meaning unsettled

Ailani has been given to 7,905 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #168 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 1,807 recorded.

Babies named Ailani, 2025

1 in 1,830

Ailani over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05001K1.5K2K18801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ailani: meaning, origin, and history

Possible Hawaiian or Spanish name connections; meaning unsettled

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ailani means

Ailani is a given name.

The naming story behind Ailani

The editorial reference proposes two possible connections for Ailani: the rare Hawaiian name ʻAilani and the Spanish name Aylín. Those are hypotheses about its formation, rather than evidence that every modern Ailani has one fixed Hawaiian translation. Related spellings include Ailany and Aylani.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ailany and Aylani.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,899 girls were recorded with the name Ailani between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,807 in 2025; its best national rank was #168 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #542 in 2020 to #168 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,199 in 2015 to #168 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Ailani between 2024 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2024; its best national rank was #10,988 in 2024.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Ailani?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 1,830
1,807 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 889
0.11% of girls
Rank, 2025
#168
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
1,273 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ailani sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 201%
Class of 302%
Grade of 1005%
School of 50024%

Put another way: gather 1,273 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ailani. In a class of 30 the chance is 2%.

When Ailanis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ailani was born before 2021 — so the typical Ailani is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
64.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
7,899
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 64.3% of all recorded uses (5,081).

Is Ailani rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+159
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+374
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,031
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
8.69×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (1,807)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#168
2025

Spellings of Ailani

Ailani is not the most common spelling — Alana is, with 15.6% against Ailani's 1.8%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Ailani is used

Across 2016–2025, Ailani was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 752 girls, against 1 in 2,178 across all states with data. It was least common in Mississippi (1 in 10,000).

10133 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 752
  2. 2New Mexico1 in 806
  3. 3Arizona1 in 1,250
  4. 4Texas1 in 1,250
  5. 5Nevada1 in 1,299
  6. 6California1 in 1,449
  7. 7Colorado1 in 1,587
  8. 8Illinois1 in 1,695

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Ailani is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 75% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Ailani around the world

Where Ailani ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2004–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2021–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2004–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ailani by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#168
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 374
Best rank ever
#168
2025
Peak year
2025
1,807 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,899
Count in 2025
1,807

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,988
2024
Peak year
2024
6 that year
First recorded
2024
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ailani

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Ailani

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ailani, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Ailani

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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