Lelani
- #3,903 for girls in 2025, 37 births
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 51 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,010since 1948
Lelani over time
Rank among girls' names. Lelani has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,903 | 37 |
| 2024 | #3,119 | 51 |
| 2023 | #3,525 | 44 |
| 2022 | #3,827 | 39 |
| 2021 | #3,553 | 43 |
| 2020 | #3,338 | 46 |
| 2019 | #3,665 | 41 |
| 2018 | #3,497 | 44 |
| 2017 | #4,576 | 30 |
| 2016 | #7,602 | 15 |
| 2015 | #5,653 | 23 |
| 2014 | #5,797 | 22 |
| 2013 | #6,462 | 19 |
| 2012 | #4,601 | 31 |
| 2011 | #5,728 | 23 |
| 2010 | #5,414 | 25 |
| 2009 | #6,811 | 19 |
| 2008 | #5,434 | 26 |
| 2007 | #4,299 | 35 |
| 2006 | #4,358 | 33 |
| 2005 | #5,600 | 22 |
| 2004 | #3,898 | 36 |
| 2003 | #4,943 | 25 |
| 2002 | #5,897 | 19 |
| 2001 | #7,317 | 14 |
| 2000 | #7,580 | 13 |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 |
| 1997 | #6,844 | 13 |
| 1996 | #7,130 | 12 |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 |
| 1993 | — | |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 |
| 1991 | — | |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 |
| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 |
| 1986 | — | |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 |
| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 |
| 1982 | — | |
| 1981 | #7,409 | 8 |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 |
| 1977 | #6,892 | 8 |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 |
| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 |
| 1973 | #5,580 | 9 |
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| 1967 | #4,625 | 9 |
| 1966 | #4,866 | 8 |
| 1965 | #4,831 | 8 |
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 |
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| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 |
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| 1958 | #4,890 | 7 |
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| 1952 | #4,483 | 7 |
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| 1948 | #4,651 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Lelani! It came in at #4,651, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1949–1951, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Lelani is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- North Carolina#1,138 · 1 in 6,640
- Texas#2,636 · 1 in 22,935
Best ever in a state: #1,138 in North Carolina, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| North Carolina | #1,138 | 7 | 1 in 6,640 |
| Texas | #2,636 | 7 | 1 in 22,935 |
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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 Lelani
- 784 spots since 2024 (#3,119 → #3,903)
- 565 spots since 2020 (#3,338 → #3,903)
- 1,750 spots since 2015 (#5,653 → #3,903)
- Debuted 1948
- Peaked 2024 at #3,119 (51 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 31,768 girls born in 2024 were named Lelani (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 43,440 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 27.0% of all girls named Lelani (273) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 6 | #4,651 (1948) | #4,651 |
| 1950s | 14 | #4,483 (1952) | #4,687 |
| 1960s | 35 | #4,625 (1967) | #5,533 |
| 1970s | 50 | #5,580 (1973) | #7,348 |
| 1980s | 61 | #6,705 (1983) | #8,161 |
| 1990s | 69 | #6,844 (1997) | #9,937 |
| 2000s | 242 | #3,898 (2004) | #5,614 |
| 2010s | 273 | #3,497 (2018) | #5,300 |
| 2020s | 260 | #3,119 (2024) | #3,544 |
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.
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