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Xolani

#1,124 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Peace

Xolani has been given to 1,111 babies in the U.S. since 2004. In 2025 it ranked #1,124 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 209 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% girls, 6% boys all-time.

Babies named Xolani, 2025

1 in 15,900

Xolani over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Xolani over time

In 2025, Xolani went to 98% girls and 2% boys.

20042025

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.

Xolani: meaning, origin, and history

Peace

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Xolani means

Xolani means “peace”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,039 girls were recorded with the name Xolani between 2004 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 209 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,124 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,680 in 2020 to #1,124 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,988 in 2015 to #1,124 in 2025.

In the United States, 72 boys were recorded with the name Xolani between 2018 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2019; its best national rank was #6,389 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,513 in 2020 to #13,817 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 Xolani?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 15,900
209 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 7,690
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,124
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
10,996 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Xolani 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 10,996 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Xolani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Xolanis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Xolani was born before 2023 — so the typical Xolani is around 2 today.

Median birth year
2023
About 2 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
85.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,039
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 85.1% of all recorded uses (884).

Is Xolani 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
+31
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,556
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+6,864
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
13.93×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2024 (209)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,124
2025

Spellings of Xolani

Xolani is not the most common spelling — Alani is, with 17.5% against Xolani's 0.97%.

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 Xolani is used

Across 2016–2025, Xolani was most concentrated in Colorado — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 17,921 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

111 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Colorado1 in 9,091
  2. 2California1 in 12,500
  3. 3Georgia1 in 12,500
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 12,500
  5. 5Florida1 in 14,286
  6. 6Texas1 in 14,286
  7. 7New York1 in 16,667
  8. 8Arizona1 in 20,000

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.

Xolani around the world

Where Xolani 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
    2025–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Xolani by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,124
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,556
Best rank ever
#1,124
2025
Peak year
2024
209 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,039
Count in 2025
209

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,817
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,304
Best rank ever
#6,389
2019
Peak year
2019
14 that year
First recorded
2018
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
72
Count in 2025
5

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

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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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