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Alani

#161 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly orange (tree or fruit)

Alani has been given to 18,910 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #161 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 1,843 recorded.

Babies named Alani, 2025

1 in 1,800

Alani 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alani: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly orange (tree or fruit)

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alani means

Alani may mean “orange (tree or fruit)”.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Alani → Alana → Alan. The family’s proposed meaning is “noble”, recorded in English with the source elements ail.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alana.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 18,799 girls were recorded with the name Alani between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,843 in 2025; its best national rank was #161 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #221 in 2020 to #161 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #529 in 2015 to #161 in 2025.

In the United States, 111 boys were recorded with the name Alani between 2004 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2019; its best national rank was #6,107 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,595 in 2020 to #10,736 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Alani?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 1,800
1,843 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 872
0.11% of girls
Rank, 2025
#161
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
1,248 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alani 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 1,248 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alani. In a class of 30 the chance is 2%.

When Alanis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alani was born before 2020 — so the typical Alani is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
52.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
18,799
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 52.3% of all recorded uses (9,825).

Is Alani 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
+17
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+60
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+368
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.10×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (1,843)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#161
2025

Spellings of Alani

Alani is not the most common spelling — Alana is, with 8.4% against Alani's 2.3%.

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 Alani is used

Across 2016–2025, Alani was most concentrated in Delaware — about 1 in 474 girls, against 1 in 1,031 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in 11,111).

9211 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Delaware1 in 474
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 621
  3. 3Georgia1 in 629
  4. 4Nevada1 in 633
  5. 5Mississippi1 in 645
  6. 6Florida1 in 690
  7. 7South Carolina1 in 746
  8. 8Alabama1 in 806

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, Alani is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 42% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Alani around the world

Where Alani 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
    2003–2025
    #872
    in 2025
  • France
    2019–2019
    #6,707
    in 2019
  • Canada
    2013–2024
    #1,968
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2005–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Alani by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#161
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 60
Best rank ever
#161
2025
Peak year
2025
1,843 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
18,799
Count in 2025
1,843

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,736
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,141
Best rank ever
#6,107
2019
Peak year
2019
14 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
111
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Alani

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

AlaiaAlayaAlannaAlayahAlanaAlaynaAmaniImaniAlainaAlaraAlanahEmaniAlannahArmaniAlanisMilaniAlaiyaDaniKalaniShaniAlaysiaAvaniNalaniAilani

Names with a curve like Alani

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

LilithAriellaSaylorEliannaFreyaEmberJuniperRiverKaiaWrenRoryZuri

Sibling names for Alani

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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