girls:
2.1k births since 2000
#3760 (34th percentile)
boys:
61 births since 2006
#4525 (1st percentile)
overall:
2.1k births since 2000
#5646 (27th percentile)
The name Khalani is the #5,646 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,141 recorded births since 2000. This represents the 27.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 27.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,760 (34.2% percentile) for all time with 2,080 births since 2000. For boys, it ranks #4,525 (1.3% percentile) for all time with 61 births since 2006.
Khalani first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2000 (2000 for girls and 2006 for boys). Birth data for Khalani is available in 21 out of the 24 years between 2000 and 2023 (21 years for girls and 10 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 Khalani has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.2% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Khalani reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 32.3% percentile (ranked #634) with 178 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 178 births per million (ranked 32.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2009, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Khalani is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #652 (31.2% percentile) with 176 births per million.
For boys, Khalani reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #914) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Khalani ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 91.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Khalani".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Khalani", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 59 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Kalani" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Kalani..
Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Khalani. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 27.1% confident that Khalani is pronounced as kuh-LAH-nee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kah-LAH-nee, at 22.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like K AH0 L AA1 N IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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