Kaelani
#1,824 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kaelani has been given to 1,315 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #1,824 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 132 recorded.
Babies named Kaelani, 2025
1 in 30,100
Kaelani 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kaelani?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 30,100
- 110 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 14,600
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,824
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 20,891 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kaelani 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 20,891 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaelani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kaelanis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaelani was born before 2020 — so the typical Kaelani is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 50.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 95.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,315
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 50.3% of all recorded uses (661).
Is Kaelani 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
- −40
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −38
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,735
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.50×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 83.3%
- Peak was 2023 (132)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.0% average annual change
Spellings of Kaelani
Kaelani is not the most common spelling — Alani is, with 9.6% against Kaelani's 0.67%.
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 Kaelani is used
Across 2016–2025, Kaelani was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 20,091 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in 12,500
- 2California1 in 14,286
- 3New York1 in 14,286
- 4Texas1 in 16,667
- 5Arizona1 in 20,000
- 6Nevada1 in 20,000
- 7North Carolina1 in 25,000
- 8Georgia1 in 33,333
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.
Kaelani around the world
Where Kaelani 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 & Wales2025–2025#5,927in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Kaelani by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kaelani
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kaelani
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.