Zaylani
#2,690 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zaylani has been given to 270 babies in the U.S. since 2015. In 2025 it ranked #2,690 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 65 recorded.
Babies named Zaylani, 2025
1 in 51,000
Zaylani 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Zaylani?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 51,000
- 65 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 24,700
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,690
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 35,353 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zaylani 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 35,353 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zaylani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zaylanis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zaylani was born before 2023 — so the typical Zaylani is around 2 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 80.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 270
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 80.4% of all recorded uses (217).
Is Zaylani 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
- +484
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +4,220
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +16,371
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 13.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (65)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 42.3% average annual change
Spellings of Zaylani
Zaylani is not the most common spelling — Alani is, with 15.2% against Zaylani's 0.22%.
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 Zaylani is used
Across 1910–2025, Zaylani was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 706,021 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3Illinois1 in —
- 4Massachusetts1 in —
- 5Pennsylvania1 in —
- 6Texas1 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. Zaylani has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Zaylani by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Zaylani
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Zaylani
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.