Jaelani
#2,246 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jaelani has been given to 610 babies in the U.S. since 2006. In 2025 it ranked #2,246 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 103 recorded.
Babies named Jaelani, 2025
1 in 40,400
Jaelani 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Jaelani?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 40,400
- 82 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 19,600
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,246
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 28,024 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jaelani 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 28,024 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jaelani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jaelanis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jaelani was born before 2022 — so the typical Jaelani is around 3 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 65.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 610
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 65.6% of all recorded uses (400).
Is Jaelani 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
- −313
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,961
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +5,162
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 5.13×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 79.6%
- Peak was 2024 (103)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.7% average annual change
Spellings of Jaelani
Jaelani is not the most common spelling — Alani is, with 12.3% against Jaelani's 0.40%.
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 Jaelani is used
Across 2016–2025, Jaelani was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 27,793 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in 16,667
- 2Texas1 in 20,000
- 3New York1 in 25,000
- 4California1 in 33,333
- 5New Jersey1 in 33,333
- 6Arizona1 in 50,000
- 7Illinois1 in 100,000
- 8Ohio1 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.
Jaelani by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jaelani
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jaelani
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.