Calani

#2,615 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Calani has been given to 436 babies in the U.S. since 2013. In 2025 it ranked #2,615 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 72 recorded.

Babies named Calani, 2025

1 in 50,200

Calani over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Calani?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 50,200
66 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 24,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,615
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
34,818 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Calani 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 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 34,818 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Calani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Calanis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Calani was born before 2022 — so the typical Calani is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
77.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
436
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Choose a decade

2020s — 77.1% of all recorded uses (336).

Is Calani 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
+325
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,321
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+5,466
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
4.71×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
91.7%
Peak was 2022 (72)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,493
2022

Spellings of Calani

Calani is not the most common spelling — Alana is, with 23.4% against Calani's 0.15%.

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 Calani is used

Across 2016–2025, Calani was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 37,127 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

110 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 10,000
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 16,667
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 20,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 25,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 25,000
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 50,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 50,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 100,000

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.

Calani by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,615
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,321
Best rank ever
#2,493
2022
Peak year
2022
72 that year
First recorded
2013
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
436
Count in 2025
66

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Sibling names for Calani

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