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Leilani vs Leilanni

American parents have registered 56,491 Leilanis since 1880, against 524 Leilannis. Leilani is still ahead, with 3,792 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Leilani against Leilanni, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Leilani Leilanni

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Leilani has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1917 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2014, when Leilani had 1,540 and Leilanni had 26.

Side by side

  Leilani Leilanni
Total US births 56,491524
Most in one year 3,86844
Babies in 2025 3,79235
Estimated living today 55,000520
Median age today 87
Peak year 20222023
Best rank 59th girls3,525th girls
Rank in 2025 60th4,067th
First recorded 19172003
Girls / boys 56,466 / 25524 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Leilani and Leilanni.