Xolani
#1,120 for girls in 2025, 209 births · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to girls 93.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 209 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,039since 2004
Xolani 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,120 | 209 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #1,152 | 209 | #8,987 | 8 |
| 2023 | #1,292 | 177 | #7,289 | 11 |
| 2022 | #1,621 | 130 | #7,262 | 11 |
| 2021 | #2,007 | 96 | #7,587 | 10 |
| 2020 | #2,659 | 63 | #8,739 | 8 |
| 2019 | #4,546 | 30 | #6,104 | 14 |
| 2018 | #4,357 | 32 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #5,821 | 21 | — | |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 | — | |
| 2015 | #7,613 | 15 | — | |
| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 | — | |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | — | |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 | — | |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | — | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | — | |
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| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | — | |
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| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Xolani! It came in at #16,099, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2004–2007, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Xolani is popular in 2004
No state had 5 or more girls named Xolani in 2004, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Xolani
- 32 spots since 2024 (#1,152 → #1,120)
- 1,539 spots since 2020 (#2,659 → #1,120)
- 6,493 spots since 2015 (#7,613 → #1,120)
- Debuted 2004
- Peaked 2025 at #1,120 (209 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 7,690 girls born in 2025 were named Xolani (0.01%)
- 85.1% of all girls named Xolani (884) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 11 | #15,405 (2008) | #15,752 |
| 2010s | 144 | #4,357 (2018) | #9,867 |
| 2020s | 884 | #1,120 (2025) | #1,642 |
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.
Xolani in 2004
Top girls' names in 2004
More about 2004
girls
1,836,250 girls got a published name in 2004; 1 in 367,250 of them was named Xolani, which outranked 14.5% of the 18,835 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,736 names at #16,099; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.