Jelani
Jelani is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 94 births. Its best rank was 935th, in 1998.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 940.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 1998151 births
- Best rank
- #935in 1998
- Since 1973
- 5,525people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,651 boys have been named Jelani in the United States since 1973, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1998, with 151 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2002, and the 2000s alone account for 25%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Jelani is used for both sexes: 16% of its bearers are girls (874), most of them born around 2023.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1998, its biggest year
Jelani was the 935th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1998 were Michael, Jacob, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 1998.
Names that rose and fell with Jelani
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Waleedpeak 2000
- Ahmadpeak 2001
- Nabilpeak 2015
- Kamalpeak 2009
- Jansenpeak 1994
- Nabeelpeak 1999
- Otonielpeak 1995
- Arikpeak 2000
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.