girls:
15.2k births since 1978
#1235 (78th percentile)
boys:
98 births since 2004
#4488 (2nd percentile)
overall:
15.3k births since 1978
#2115 (73rd percentile)
The name Alani is the #2,115 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 15,336 recorded births since 1978. This represents the 72.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 72.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,235 (78.4% percentile) for all time with 15,238 births since 1978. For boys, it ranks #4,488 (2.1% percentile) for all time with 98 births since 2004.
Alani first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1978 (1978 for girls and 2004 for boys). Birth data for Alani is available in 44 out of the 46 years between 1978 and 2023 (44 years for girls and 15 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Alani has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.4% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Alani reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 82.4% percentile (ranked #169) with 947 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 947 births per million (ranked 82.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1989, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Alani is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #172 (81.9% percentile) with 942 births per million.
For boys, Alani reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #908) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2013, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Alani ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 37.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alani".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Alani. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 70.7% confident that Alani is pronounced as uh-LAH-nee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-LA-nee, at 12.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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