Kelani
Kelani is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 168 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1680.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2020182 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1976
- 1,637people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,571 girls have been named Kelani in the United States since 1976, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2020, with 182 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 2020, and the 2020s alone account for 51%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 66 boys have also been given it, 4.0% of the total.
By decade
In 2020, its biggest year
Kelani was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2020 were Olivia, Emma, Ava, Charlotte and Sophia. See all of 2020.
Names that rose and fell with Kelani
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Alaiyapeak 2021
- Valkyriepeak 2022
- Legacypeak 2021
- Remipeak 2022
- Amaiapeak 2020
- Kalanipeak 2021
- Alaiahpeak 2020
- Ailanipeak 2024
Other spellings in the data
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.