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 | ||
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| 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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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 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Colorado#634 · 1 in 2,916
- North Carolina#834 · 1 in 4,226
- Virginia#843 · 1 in 4,218
- Illinois#852 · 1 in 4,433
- California#855 · 1 in 4,757
Best ever in a state: #624 in Colorado, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Colorado | #634 | 8 | 1 in 2,916 |
| North Carolina | #834 | 11 | 1 in 4,226 |
| Virginia | #843 | 8 | 1 in 4,218 |
| Illinois | #852 | 10 | 1 in 4,433 |
| California | #855 | 34 | 1 in 4,757 |
| Georgia | #915 | 10 | 1 in 4,521 |
| New York | #980 | 15 | 1 in 5,222 |
| Texas | #1,006 | 28 | 1 in 5,734 |
| Indiana | #1,032 | 5 | 1 in 5,582 |
| Michigan | #1,210 | 5 | 1 in 7,146 |
| Ohio | #1,438 | 5 | 1 in 9,454 |
| Florida | #1,887 | 6 | 1 in 14,460 |
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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 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 7,690 of them was named Xolani, which outranked 93.5% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #1,117Imogen211
- #1,117Kacey211
- #1,119Rhiannon210
- #1,120Xolani209
- #1,120Ida209
- #1,120Ingrid209
- #1,120Princess209
- #1,125Annya208
- #1,125Dior208
- #1,125Kit208
Tied with 4 names at #1,120; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 341,615 of them was named Xolani, which outranked 13.8% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
Tied with 1,922 names at #12,008; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.