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Lailani

#1,070 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Lailani has been given to 2,629 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #1,070 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 227 recorded.

Babies named Lailani, 2025

1 in 14,600

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lailani: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lailani means

Lailani is a given name.

The naming story behind Lailani

Wikidata records Lailani as a given name. The entity identifier is Q14945084, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,629 girls were recorded with the name Lailani between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 227 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,070 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,220 in 2020 to #1,070 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,069 in 2015 to #1,070 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Lailani?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 14,600
227 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 7,080
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,070
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
10,124 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lailani 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 10,124 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lailani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lailanis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lailani was born before 2018 — so the typical Lailani is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
42.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,629
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 42.3% of all recorded uses (1,113).

Is Lailani 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
+363
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+150
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+999
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.39×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (227)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,070
2025

Spellings of Lailani

Lailani is not the most common spelling — Leilani is, with 21.9% against Lailani's 1.0%.

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 Lailani is used

Across 2016–2025, Lailani was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 4,545 girls, against 1 in 9,944 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).

222 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 4,545
  2. 2Florida1 in 6,250
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 6,250
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 7,143
  5. 5Illinois1 in 7,692
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 7,692
  7. 7Arizona1 in 10,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 10,000

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.

Lailani around the world

Where Lailani 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.

  • South Australia
    2004–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lailani by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,070
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 150
Best rank ever
#1,070
2025
Peak year
2025
227 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,629
Count in 2025
227

Names similar to Lailani

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

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Names with a curve like Lailani

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Lailani, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Lailani

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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