Jalani
Jalani is a girl's name that peaked in 2025, when it was the 1,065th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 1,065th. About 2,300 Jalanis are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 5.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Jalani
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Jalani crossed from boys to girls in 2013, and has stayed there for 13 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 93% girls, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 27 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,346
- Estimated living today
- 2,300
- Median age today
- 5
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 1,065th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,065th
- First recorded
- 1973
- Girls / boys
- 1,676 / 670
How old the living Jalanis are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,346 babies given the name since 1973, about 2,300 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,900 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2020 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Jalanis
- Jalani Sidek (born 1963)badminton player
People named Jalani with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jalani is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jalani is most concentrated in Florida (6.5×), Georgia (4.4×), Louisiana (3.3×), South Carolina (3.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular girls’ names the year Jalani peaked:
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Jalani against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.