Zylani
#4,876 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zylani has been given to 78 babies in the U.S. since 2020. In 2025 it ranked #4,876 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 28 recorded.
Babies named Zylani, 2025
1 in 118,000
Zylani 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Zylani?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 118,000
- 28 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 57,400
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #4,876
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 82,069 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zylani 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 82,069 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zylani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zylanis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zylani was born before 2024 — so the typical Zylani is around 1 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 78
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (78).
Is Zylani 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
- +1,082
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +10,204
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (28)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 57.9% average annual change
Spellings of Zylani
Zylani is not the most common spelling — Alani is, with 12.0% against Zylani's 0.05%.
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.
Zylani by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Zylani
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Zylani
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.