Kahlani
#875 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kahlani has been given to 2,220 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #875 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 325 recorded.
Babies named Kahlani, 2025
1 in 10,800
Kahlani 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kahlani?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 10,800
- 306 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 5,250
- 0.02% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #875
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 7,511 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kahlani 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 7,511 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kahlani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kahlanis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kahlani was born before 2022 — so the typical Kahlani is around 3 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 74.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,213
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 74.1% of all recorded uses (1,639).
Is Kahlani 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
- +248
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +4,499
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 12.24×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 94.2%
- Peak was 2024 (325)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 48.3% average annual change
Spellings of Kahlani
Kahlani is not the most common spelling — Alani is, with 12.7% against Kahlani's 1.5%.
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 Kahlani is used
Across 2016–2025, Kahlani was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 2,128 girls, against 1 in 6,887 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 50,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 2,128
- 2Alabama1 in 2,632
- 3South Carolina1 in 2,778
- 4Georgia1 in 2,857
- 5Louisiana1 in 3,125
- 6North Carolina1 in 3,226
- 7Virginia1 in 4,167
- 8Florida1 in 4,762
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.
Kahlani around the world
Where Kahlani 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 & Wales2021–2024#3,696in 2024
- Canada2022–2024#3,027in 2024
- South Australia2010–2010#801in 2010
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.
Kahlani by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Kahlani
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Kahlani
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kahlani, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Kahlani
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.