Elani
#844 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Elani has been given to 2,485 babies in the U.S. since 1986. In 2025 it ranked #844 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 322 recorded.
Babies named Elani, 2025
1 in 10,300
Elani 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Elani?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 10,300
- 322 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 4,990
- 0.02% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #844
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 7,137 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Elani 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 7,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Elanis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Elani was born before 2020 — so the typical Elani is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 54.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 93.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,485
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 54.1% of all recorded uses (1,344).
Is Elani 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
- +151
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +479
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,847
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 4.88×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (322)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 17.6% average annual change
Spellings of Elani
Elani is not the most common spelling — Elaine is, with 20.1% against Elani's 0.19%.
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 Elani is used
Across 2016–2025, Elani was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 4,348 girls, against 1 in 8,449 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in 4,348
- 2Louisiana1 in 5,556
- 3Texas1 in 5,882
- 4Illinois1 in 6,250
- 5Florida1 in 6,667
- 6North Carolina1 in 7,143
- 7California1 in 8,333
- 8Arizona1 in 9,091
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.
Elani around the world
Where Elani 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 & Wales2004–2025#2,605in 2025
- Canada2024–2024#3,027in 2024
- South Australia1998–2012#871in 2012
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.
Elani by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Elani
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Elani
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Elani, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Elani
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.