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Kalyani

#5,157 in 2025Girls' name

Auspicious, beneficial, prosperous

Kalyani has been given to 368 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #5,157 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Kalyani, 2025

1 in 133,000

Kalyani over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kalyani: meaning, origin, and history

Auspicious, beneficial, prosperous

Sanskrit

What Kalyani means

Kalyani means “auspicious, beneficial, prosperous”, associated with kalyāṇī.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Sanskrit कल्याणी (kalyāṇī, “auspicious, beneficial, prosperous”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Kalyani (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Kalyani is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 368 girls were recorded with the name Kalyani between 1997 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 2025; its best national rank was #5,157 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,473 in 2020 to #5,157 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,683 in 2015 to #5,157 in 2025.

How common is Kalyani?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 133,000
25 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 64,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,157
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
91,917 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kalyani sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kalyani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kalyanis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kalyani was born before 2014 — so the typical Kalyani is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
43.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
368
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 43.2% of all recorded uses (159).

Is Kalyani 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
+1,629
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,316
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,526
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.92×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (25)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,157
2025

Spellings of Kalyani

Kalyani is not the most common spelling — Alani is, with 18.7% against Kalyani's 0.37%.

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 Kalyani is used

Across 1910–2025, Kalyani was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,606,391 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

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. Kalyani has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kalyani around the world

Where Kalyani 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 & Wales
    1999–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    1998–2025
    #4,335
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2023–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1995–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kalyani by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,157
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,316
Best rank ever
#5,157
2025
Peak year
2025
25 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
368
Count in 2025
25

Names similar to Kalyani

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

KaleesiKaleiahKalaniKaliopeKaleyahKaliannKalanieKalianiKallenKallanKalahniKalyssaKalilahKaleeahKaleyaKalliopiKalianaKaliannaKallynKalaysiaKalaiyaKalanaKalyseKalisa

Sibling names for Kalyani

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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