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Tehani

#5,699 in 2025Girls' name

The + darling

Tehani has been given to 588 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #5,699 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Tehani, 2025

1 in 151,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tehani: meaning, origin, and history

The + darling

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tehani means

Tehani means “the + darling”, associated with te and hani.

Origin, language, and formation

Tehani is used in English.

Tehani comes through Tahitian te.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 588 girls were recorded with the name Tehani between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 2006; its best national rank was #5,071 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,530 in 2020 to #5,699 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,793 in 2015 to #5,699 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Tehani?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 73,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,699
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tehani 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 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tehani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tehanis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tehani was born before 2007 — so the typical Tehani is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
34.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
73.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
588
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 34.9% of all recorded uses (205).

Is Tehani 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
+1,862
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,831
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+5,094
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
84.6%
Peak was 2006 (26)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,071
2002

Spellings of Tehani

Tehani is not the most common spelling — Kehlani is, with 19.8% against Tehani's 0.81%.

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 Tehani is used

Across 1910–2025, Tehani was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 1,724 girls, against 1 in 60,792 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

058 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 1,724
  2. 2California1 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. Tehani has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tehani around the world

Where Tehani 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
    2014–2014
    #5,691
    in 2014
  • France
    1989–2025
    #1,521
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1994–2009
    #818
    in 2009

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.

Tehani by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,699
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,831
Best rank ever
#5,071
2002
Peak year
2006
26 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
588
Count in 2025
22

Names similar to Tehani

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

TehlaniTehilaTehillaJayaniAhmaniArianiDamaniNylaniMylaniDalaniKylaniKemaniElianiDevaniTahaniLeianiDayaniJasaniKeyaniLexaniCalaniJananiKananiLalani

Sibling names for Tehani

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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