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Ailani vs Ailanny

American parents have registered 7,905 Ailanis since 1880, against 502 Ailannys. Ailani is still ahead, with 1,807 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ailani against Ailanny, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ailani Ailanny

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Ailani has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1996 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Ailani had 1,807 and Ailanny had 280.

Side by side

  Ailani Ailanny
Total US births 7,905502
Most in one year 1,807280
Babies in 2025 1,807280
Estimated living today 7,900500
Median age today 30
Peak year 20252025
Best rank 168th girls932nd girls
Rank in 2025 168th932nd
First recorded 19962011
Girls / boys 7,899 / 6502 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Ailanis alive today are over 3; half the Ailannys have not had a first birthday. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ailani and Ailanny.