Alani
#161 for girls in 2025, 1,843 births · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to girls 99.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 1,843 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 18,799since 1978
Alani over time
Rank among girls' names. Alani has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #161 | 1,843 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #178 | 1,703 | #9,894 | 7 |
| 2023 | #177 | 1,654 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #173 | 1,700 | #8,300 | 9 |
| 2021 | #183 | 1,605 | — | |
| 2020 | #221 | 1,320 | #9,554 | 7 |
| 2019 | #303 | 1,074 | #6,104 | 14 |
| 2018 | #347 | 912 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #448 | 705 | #8,840 | 8 |
| 2016 | #488 | 637 | #10,744 | 6 |
| 2015 | #529 | 595 | — | |
| 2014 | #613 | 474 | — | |
| 2013 | #616 | 454 | #10,728 | 6 |
| 2012 | #588 | 496 | #10,770 | 6 |
| 2011 | #666 | 425 | — | |
| 2010 | #717 | 394 | #9,693 | 7 |
| 2009 | #755 | 376 | — | |
| 2008 | #918 | 298 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #873 | 320 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #942 | 278 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #920 | 270 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #1,025 | 227 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #984 | 234 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,404 | 137 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,516 | 123 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,558 | 114 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,975 | 79 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,429 | 57 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,328 | 57 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,476 | 51 | — | |
| 1995 | #4,217 | 24 | — | |
| 1994 | #5,249 | 18 | — | |
| 1993 | #4,257 | 24 | — | |
| 1992 | #4,382 | 23 | — | |
| 1991 | #7,987 | 10 | — | |
| 1990 | #6,867 | 12 | — | |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | — | |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 | — | |
| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 | — | |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 | — | |
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| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | — | |
| 1983 | #6,212 | 10 | — | |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | — | |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 | — | |
| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 | — | |
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| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Alani! It came in at #9,750, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1978–1979, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Alani is popular in 1992
No state had 5 or more girls named Alani in 1992, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Alani
- 17 spots since 2024 (#178 → #161)
- 60 spots since 2020 (#221 → #161)
- 368 spots since 2015 (#529 → #161)
- Biggest jump: 420 spots in 2003 (#1,404 → #984)
- Biggest drop: 45 spots in 2008 (#873 → #918)
- Debuted 1978
- Peaked 2025 at #161 (1,843 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 22 yrs · run 2005–2025
- Highest: 1 in 872 girls born in 2025 were named Alani (0.11%)
- 52.3% of all girls named Alani (9,825) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #9,750 (1978) | #9,750 |
| 1980s | 71 | #6,212 (1983) | #8,202 |
| 1990s | 355 | #1,975 (1999) | #4,217 |
| 2000s | 2,377 | #755 (2009) | #1,090 |
| 2010s | 6,166 | #303 (2019) | #532 |
| 2020s | 9,825 | #161 (2025) | #182 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Alani in 1992
Top girls' names in 1992
More about 1992
girls
1,843,931 girls got a published name in 1992; 1 in 80,171 of them was named Alani, which outranked 71.9% of the 15,610 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,236Yenifer24
- #4,236Yoseline24
- #4,236Zakiyyah24
- #4,382Alani23
- #4,382Aditi23
- #4,382Aletha23
- #4,382Alicyn23
- #4,528Adriann22
- #4,528Ajah22
- #4,528Alethia22
Tied with 145 names at #4,382; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.