Kelani
#1,542 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kelani has been given to 1,774 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #1,542 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 182 recorded.
Babies named Kelani, 2025
1 in 24,200
Kelani 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kelani?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 24,200
- 137 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 11,700
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,542
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 16,774 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kelani 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 16,774 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kelani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kelanis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kelani was born before 2020 — so the typical Kelani is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 55.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 94.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,708
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 55.0% of all recorded uses (940).
Is Kelani 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
- −182
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −290
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,408
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 3.61×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 75.3%
- Peak was 2020 (182)
- Years since peak
- 5
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.7% average annual change
Spellings of Kelani
Kelani is not the most common spelling — Melanie is, with 40.0% against Kelani's 0.26%.
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 Kelani is used
Across 2016–2025, Kelani was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 2,632 girls, against 1 in 11,787 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 2,632
- 2Georgia1 in 3,846
- 3Louisiana1 in 4,167
- 4Alabama1 in 4,545
- 5Florida1 in 5,556
- 6North Carolina1 in 5,882
- 7South Carolina1 in 5,882
- 8Texas1 in 11,111
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.
Kelani around the world
Where Kelani 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 & Wales2017–2025#3,333in 2025
- France2025–2025#5,925in 2025
- Canada2019–2024#3,027in 2024
- South Australia2006–2011#840in 2011
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.
Kelani by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Kelani
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kelani
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.