girls:
49.3k births since 1917
#582 (90th percentile)
boys:
25 births since 2003
#4561 (0th percentile)
overall:
49.3k births since 1917
#1084 (86th percentile)
The name Leilani is the #1,084 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 49,280 recorded births since 1917. This represents the 86.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #582 (89.8% percentile) for all time with 49,255 births since 1917. For boys, it ranks #4,561 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 25 births since 2003.
Leilani first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1917 (1917 for girls and 2003 for boys). Birth data for Leilani is available in 103 out of the 107 years between 1917 and 2023 (103 years for girls and 4 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 Leilani has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Leilani reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 93.9% percentile (ranked #59) with 2,154 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 2,154 births per million (ranked 93.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1991, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Leilani ranks #59 for girls (93.9% percentile) with 2,025 births per million, which is 94.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Leilani reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #823) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Leilani".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Leilani. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 44.2% confident that Leilani is pronounced as lay-LAH-nee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LAY-lah-nee, at 19.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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