Jelani

Where Jelani comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Jelani.

  • Vowel-ended
Jelani through the years
  1. 1973
    First appearance
    #1,400 among boys with 36 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1977
    Jelani McCoy born
    American basketball player
  3. 1997
    Jelani Reshaun Sumiyoshi born
    Japanese association football player
  4. 1998
    Peak, #931
    151 babies named Jelani, the most in any year.
  5. 2014
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #2,044.
  6. 2025
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Jelani Reshaun Sumiyoshi · Japanese association football player, born 1997
  • Jelani McCoy · American basketball player, born 1977
  • Jelani Smith · association football player, born 1991
  • Jelani Alladin · American actor, born 1992
  • Jelani Peters · Canadian soccer player, born 1993

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.