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Girl's name · #387 in the US (2025) · 2020s wave
Kalani is near its high-water mark: it reached #339 in 2021 and still ranked #387 in 2025. About 10,000 girls have carried it since 1963.
In recent years, Kalani ran 4–5× its national rate in Mississippi and Louisiana.
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 38 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
See how Kalani ranks in other countries and regions.
#1,582 in Austria (2025) · #2,347 in England & Wales (2025) · #1,909 in Canada (2024).
Among 21 notable people named Kalani:
Sports figures appear 2.98× more often than among typical names — e.g. Kalani Brown, American basketball player.
Together with its spelling variants Khalani (#904) and Calani (#2615), Kalani would rank around #269 with about 1,200 births last year — the newborns split about 69/25/6 across Kalani, Khalani, and Calani.
Similar names: Khalani · Milani · Khaleesi · Malani · Malia · Kai
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