Jalani
#1,065 for girls in 2025, 228 births · #5,608 for boys in 2025, 16 births
Given to girls 71.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 228 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,676since 1992
Jalani over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,065 | 228 | #5,608 | 16 |
| 2024 | #1,184 | 202 | #5,067 | 19 |
| 2023 | #1,089 | 226 | #4,112 | 26 |
| 2022 | #1,274 | 188 | #3,464 | 33 |
| 2021 | #1,544 | 136 | #5,776 | 15 |
| 2020 | #1,965 | 96 | #5,041 | 18 |
| 2019 | #1,898 | 105 | #4,951 | 19 |
| 2018 | #2,361 | 77 | #3,891 | 27 |
| 2017 | #2,903 | 57 | #5,297 | 17 |
| 2016 | #3,849 | 39 | #5,318 | 17 |
| 2015 | #3,842 | 39 | #4,080 | 25 |
| 2014 | #4,892 | 28 | #7,562 | 10 |
| 2013 | #6,017 | 21 | #5,659 | 15 |
| 2012 | #6,110 | 21 | #3,894 | 26 |
| 2011 | #3,350 | 48 | #4,822 | 19 |
| 2010 | #7,513 | 16 | #5,047 | 18 |
| 2009 | #8,454 | 14 | #6,802 | 12 |
| 2008 | #6,799 | 19 | #5,067 | 18 |
| 2007 | #9,539 | 12 | #5,210 | 17 |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 | #5,781 | 14 |
| 2005 | #9,452 | 11 | #3,941 | 23 |
| 2004 | #6,216 | 19 | #3,217 | 30 |
| 2003 | #7,580 | 14 | #4,426 | 18 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #2,943 | 31 |
| 2001 | #8,758 | 11 | #3,512 | 24 |
| 2000 | #9,874 | 9 | #4,066 | 19 |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 | #3,279 | 24 |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 | #3,191 | 24 |
| 1997 | — | #3,455 | 20 | |
| 1996 | — | #4,185 | 15 | |
| 1995 | — | #5,124 | 11 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,868 | 9 | |
| 1993 | — | #4,447 | 13 | |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | — | |
| 1991 | — | #5,521 | 9 | |
| 1990 | — | #5,382 | 9 | |
| 1989 | — | #7,905 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jalani! It came in at #13,317, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1992–1997, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Jalani is popular in 2022
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Louisiana#295 · 1 in 1,056
- Alabama#304 · 1 in 1,200
- Mississippi#462 · 1 in 1,618
- South Carolina#504 · 1 in 1,973
- Florida#543 · 1 in 2,610
Best ever in a state: #218 in Mississippi, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Louisiana | #295 | 17 | 1 in 1,056 |
| Alabama | #304 | 16 | 1 in 1,200 |
| Mississippi | #462 | 6 | 1 in 1,618 |
| South Carolina | #504 | 9 | 1 in 1,973 |
| Florida | #543 | 33 | 1 in 2,610 |
| Georgia | #704 | 14 | 1 in 3,271 |
| North Carolina | #772 | 12 | 1 in 3,790 |
| Virginia | #853 | 8 | 1 in 4,359 |
| Illinois | #970 | 9 | 1 in 5,189 |
| Ohio | #1,244 | 6 | 1 in 7,938 |
| Texas | #1,305 | 20 | 1 in 8,139 |
| New York | #1,661 | 7 | 1 in 11,439 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Jalani
- 119 spots since 2024 (#1,184 → #1,065)
- 900 spots since 2020 (#1,965 → #1,065)
- 2,777 spots since 2015 (#3,842 → #1,065)
- Debuted 1992
- Peaked 2025 at #1,065 (228 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 7,049 girls born in 2025 were named Jalani (0.01%)
- 64.2% of all girls named Jalani (1,076) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2012, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 22 | #9,260 (1998) | #10,974 |
| 2000s | 127 | #6,216 (2004) | #8,839 |
| 2010s | 451 | #1,898 (2019) | #4,274 |
| 2020s | 1,076 | #1,065 (2025) | #1,354 |
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.
Jalani in 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 8,724 of them was named Jalani, which outranked 92.8% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,269Brenda189
- #1,269Meera189
- #1,269Miya189
- #1,274Jalani188
- #1,274Lorena188
- #1,274Myah188
- #1,274Tatiana188
- #1,279Azul187
- #1,279Eleni187
- #1,279Kaleah187
Tied with 4 names at #1,274; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 52,909 of them was named Jalani, which outranked 75.8% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,412Xyon34
- #3,412Yeshaya34
- #3,412Zylo34
- #3,464Jalani33
- #3,464Abbott33
- #3,464Able33
- #3,464Affan33
- #3,533Abdoulaye32
- #3,533Acre32
- #3,533Adon32
Tied with 68 names at #3,464; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.