Ehlani
#1,231 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ehlani has been given to 1,027 babies in the U.S. since 2017. In 2025 it ranked #1,231 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 241 recorded.
Babies named Ehlani, 2025
1 in 18,100
Ehlani over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Ehlani?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 18,100
- 183 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 8,780
- 0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,231
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 12,558 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ehlani sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 12,558 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ehlani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ehlanis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ehlani was born before 2022 — so the typical Ehlani is around 3 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 99.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,027
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 99.0% of all recorded uses (1,017).
Is Ehlani 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
- +170
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +566
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 75.9%
- Peak was 2021 (241)
- Years since peak
- 4
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 383.2% average annual change
Spellings of Ehlani
Ehlani is not the most common spelling — Leilani is, with 25.5% against Ehlani's 0.46%.
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 Ehlani is used
Across 2016–2025, Ehlani was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 6,250 girls, against 1 in 11,162 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 6,250
- 2Texas1 in 6,667
- 3Arizona1 in 11,111
- 4New Mexico1 in 11,111
- 5Colorado1 in 12,500
- 6Illinois1 in 12,500
- 7Georgia1 in 16,667
- 8North Carolina1 in 16,667
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.
Ehlani by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ehlani
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ehlani
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.