Kehlani
#148 for girls in 2025, 1,981 births · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to girls 99.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 1,981 births
- Debut · girls
- 50 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 14,481since 2015
Kehlani over time
Rank among girls' names. Kehlani 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #148 | 1,981 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #150 | 1,973 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | #155 | 1,864 | #10,821 | 6 |
| 2022 | #153 | 1,875 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #151 | 1,877 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | #167 | 1,713 | #8,739 | 8 |
| 2019 | #243 | 1,311 | #7,643 | 10 |
| 2018 | #346 | 914 | — | |
| 2017 | #523 | 598 | — | |
| 2016 | #865 | 325 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #3,254 | 50 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kehlani! It came in at #3,254, and was given to 50 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2015, when fewer than 51 girls a year got the name.
Where Kehlani is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Delaware#186 · 1 in 527
- South Carolina#576 · 1 in 2,551
- Georgia#592 · 1 in 2,826
- Louisiana#596 · 1 in 2,623
- North Carolina#605 · 1 in 3,021
Best ever in a state: #15 in Mississippi, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Delaware | #186 | 5 | 1 in 527 |
| South Carolina | #576 | 7 | 1 in 2,551 |
| Georgia | #592 | 17 | 1 in 2,826 |
| Louisiana | #596 | 8 | 1 in 2,623 |
| North Carolina | #605 | 15 | 1 in 3,021 |
| New Jersey | #615 | 12 | 1 in 3,048 |
| Florida | #653 | 25 | 1 in 3,468 |
| Wisconsin | #666 | 7 | 1 in 3,329 |
| Virginia | #708 | 10 | 1 in 3,714 |
| California | #742 | 48 | 1 in 4,244 |
| Pennsylvania | #763 | 12 | 1 in 4,321 |
| Michigan | #765 | 10 | 1 in 4,207 |
| Washington | #793 | 8 | 1 in 4,018 |
| Indiana | #821 | 7 | 1 in 4,328 |
| New York | #836 | 19 | 1 in 4,728 |
| Illinois | #865 | 12 | 1 in 4,802 |
| Ohio | #878 | 10 | 1 in 5,207 |
| Missouri | #958 | 5 | 1 in 5,425 |
| Arizona | #959 | 6 | 1 in 5,157 |
| Texas | #959 | 29 | 1 in 5,769 |
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See more about Kehlani
- 2 spots since 2024 (#150 → #148)
- 19 spots since 2020 (#167 → #148)
- 3,106 spots since 2015 (#3,254 → #148)
- Biggest jump: 2,389 spots in 2016 (#3,254 → #865)
- Biggest drop: 2 spots in 2022 (#151 → #153)
- Debuted 2015
- Peaked 2025 at #148 (1,981 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 2016–2025
- Highest: 1 in 811 girls born in 2025 were named Kehlani (0.12%)
- 77.9% of all girls named Kehlani (11,283) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 2010s | 3,198 | #243 (2019) | #1,046 |
| 2020s | 11,283 | #148 (2025) | #154 |
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.
Kehlani in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 5,452 of them was named Kehlani, which outranked 95.4% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 379,548 of them was named Kehlani, which outranked 14.2% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,022 names at #12,185; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.