Kailani
#253 for girls in 2025, 1,215 births · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #8,921
Given to girls 99.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2022 · 1,350 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 12,778since 1980
Kailani over time
Rank among girls' names. Kailani has never cracked the top 200 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #253 | 1,215 | — | |
| 2024 | #276 | 1,144 | — | |
| 2023 | #226 | 1,320 | #8,921 | 8 |
| 2022 | #222 | 1,350 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #278 | 1,139 | — | |
| 2020 | #282 | 1,133 | #12,022 | 5 |
| 2019 | #350 | 903 | #9,756 | 7 |
| 2018 | #390 | 795 | — | |
| 2017 | #617 | 486 | — | |
| 2016 | #751 | 379 | — | |
| 2015 | #877 | 317 | — | |
| 2014 | #984 | 271 | #10,717 | 6 |
| 2013 | #964 | 261 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,011 | 250 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,123 | 218 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,274 | 187 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,420 | 165 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | #1,354 | 179 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,517 | 152 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #1,522 | 144 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,631 | 123 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,546 | 128 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,062 | 86 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,467 | 64 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,766 | 53 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,740 | 53 | — | |
| 1999 | #3,718 | 32 | — | |
| 1998 | #3,222 | 38 | — | |
| 1997 | #5,868 | 16 | — | |
| 1996 | #5,065 | 19 | — | |
| 1995 | #4,677 | 21 | — | |
| 1994 | #4,521 | 22 | — | |
| 1993 | #5,419 | 17 | — | |
| 1992 | #6,314 | 14 | — | |
| 1991 | #6,253 | 14 | — | |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 | — | |
| 1989 | #7,449 | 10 | — | |
| 1988 | #6,666 | 11 | — | |
| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 | — | |
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| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | — | |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | — | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | — | |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | — | |
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| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kailani! It came in at #7,418, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1981–1984, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Kailani is popular in 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Hawaii#48 · 1 in 206
- Nevada#127 · 1 in 531
- California#198 · 1 in 1,070
- New Mexico#223 · 1 in 727
- Arizona#288 · 1 in 1,225
Best ever in a state: #15 in Hawaii, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | #48 | 14 | 1 in 206 |
| Nevada | #127 | 20 | 1 in 531 |
| California | #198 | 177 | 1 in 1,070 |
| New Mexico | #223 | 8 | 1 in 727 |
| Arizona | #288 | 24 | 1 in 1,225 |
| Florida | #295 | 62 | 1 in 1,372 |
| Washington | #329 | 22 | 1 in 1,382 |
| Oregon | #337 | 11 | 1 in 1,272 |
| Georgia | #338 | 32 | 1 in 1,446 |
| Texas | #341 | 96 | 1 in 1,655 |
| Illinois | #342 | 34 | 1 in 1,574 |
| Connecticut | #347 | 8 | 1 in 1,446 |
| Virginia | #357 | 23 | 1 in 1,563 |
| North Carolina | #364 | 29 | 1 in 1,552 |
| Louisiana | #406 | 12 | 1 in 1,632 |
| New York | #429 | 42 | 1 in 2,064 |
| Colorado | #436 | 12 | 1 in 1,856 |
| Maryland | #439 | 13 | 1 in 1,796 |
| New Jersey | #442 | 18 | 1 in 1,996 |
| Massachusetts | #504 | 10 | 1 in 2,461 |
| Utah | #527 | 7 | 1 in 2,384 |
| Oklahoma | #560 | 7 | 1 in 2,236 |
| Indiana | #587 | 11 | 1 in 2,702 |
| Pennsylvania | #625 | 16 | 1 in 3,144 |
| Minnesota | #637 | 8 | 1 in 2,936 |
| Ohio | #721 | 13 | 1 in 3,925 |
| Tennessee | #761 | 8 | 1 in 3,897 |
| Missouri | #833 | 6 | 1 in 4,416 |
| Michigan | #835 | 9 | 1 in 4,472 |
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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 Kailani
- 23 spots since 2024 (#276 → #253)
- 29 spots since 2020 (#282 → #253)
- 624 spots since 2015 (#877 → #253)
- Biggest jump: 227 spots in 2018 (#617 → #390)
- Biggest drop: 50 spots in 2024 (#226 → #276)
- Debuted 1980
- Peaked 2022 at #222 (1,350 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 2013–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,215 girls born in 2022 were named Kailani (0.08%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,323 girls born in 2025 (0.08%)
- 57.1% of all girls named Kailani (7,301) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 59 | #6,666 (1988) | #8,676 |
| 1990s | 204 | #3,222 (1998) | #5,236 |
| 2000s | 1,147 | #1,354 (2008) | #1,903 |
| 2010s | 4,067 | #350 (2019) | #834 |
| 2020s | 7,301 | #222 (2022) | #256 |
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.
Kailani in 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 2,140 of them was named Kailani, which outranked 97.9% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.