girls:
10.5k births since 2015
#1542 (73rd percentile)
boys:
41 births since 2016
#4545 (1st percentile)
overall:
10.5k births since 2015
#2578 (67th percentile)
The name Kehlani is the #2,578 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 10,547 recorded births since 2015. This represents the 66.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 66.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,542 (73.0% percentile) for all time with 10,506 births since 2015. For boys, it ranks #4,545 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 41 births since 2016.
Kehlani first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2015 (2015 for girls and 2016 for boys).
The name Kehlani has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kehlani reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 84.7% percentile (ranked #144) with 1,045 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 1,060 births per million (ranked 84.0% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Kehlani is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #152 (84.0% percentile) with 1,060 births per million.
For boys, Kehlani reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #912) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Kehlani ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 63.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kehlani".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Kehlani. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.2% confident that Kehlani is pronounced as keh-LAH-nee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kay-LAH-nee, at 27.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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