Alani
For 2025 the count puts Alani at #161 nationwide, right at the top of its own curve. The record does not even know it before 1978; since then, 18,799 American children.
Alani’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Alani, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Alani since 1978
Alani is at its all-time peak right now: #161 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Alani is most common
The state that gives Alani most often, per girls born there, is Delaware (0.44% in 2025); Nevada and District of Columbia are close behind.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Alani
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Ailani
#168 in 2025
Ariella
#174 in 2025
Adalynn
#184 in 2025
Amari
#185 in 2025
Alora
#195 in 2025
Amira
#132 in 2025
Alina
#130 in 2025
Ariana
#128 in 2025
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About Alani
How common is Alani today?
For 2025 the count puts Alani at #161 nationwide, right at the top of its own curve. Every point on the chart is the SSA's own count, back to 1978.
What does Alani mean?
The 1884 reference we quote from has no entry for Alani. Rather than borrow a gloss from somewhere we cannot cite, the page leaves the meaning blank and lets the chart speak.
What names go with Alani?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Ailani, Ariella and Adalynn, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
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