girls:
5.1k births since 1996
#2356 (59th percentile)
overall:
5.1k births since 1996
#3807 (51st percentile)
The name Ailani is the #3,807 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,136 recorded births since 1996. This represents the 50.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 50.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,356 (58.8% percentile) for all time with 5,136 births since 1996.
Ailani first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1996 (first recorded for girls in 1996).
For girls, Ailani reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 56.2% percentile (ranked #420) with 379 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 379 births per million (ranked 56.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ailani ranks #506 for girls (46.6% percentile) with 288 births per million, which is 76.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ailani".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Ailani. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 76.7% confident that Ailani is pronounced as ai-LAH-nee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AI-LAH-nee, at 13.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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