Kani
#7,000 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kani has been given to 914 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #7,000 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 46 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 71% boys, 29% girls all-time.
Babies named Kani, 2025
1 in 276,000
Kani 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Kani over time
In 2025, Kani went to 52% girls and 48% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Kani?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 276,000
- 12 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 142,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #7,000
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 191,493 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kani 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kanis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kani was born before 2008 — so the typical Kani is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 45.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 84.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 652
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 45.1% of all recorded uses (294).
Is Kani 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
- −970
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,865
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,600
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.71×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 26.1%
- Peak was 2006 (46)
- Years since peak
- 19
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.8% average annual change
Spellings of Kani
Kani is not the most common spelling — Ian is, with 19.4% against Kani's 0.05%.
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 Kani is used
Across 1910–2025, Kani was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 551,597 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Kani has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kani around the world
Where Kani 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 & Wales1997–2024#5,120in 2024
- France1986–2025#3,257in 2025
- South Australia1994–1994#531in 1994
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kani by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Kani
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kani
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.