# Kehlani (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/kehlani/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 14,532 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 51 / 14,481 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 284, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 50 | 3,279 |
| 2016 | 325 | 868 |
| 2017 | 598 | 523 |
| 2018 | 914 | 346 |
| 2019 | 1,311 | 243 |
| 2020 | 1,713 | 168 |
| 2021 | 1,877 | 151 |
| 2022 | 1,875 | 153 |
| 2023 | 1,864 | 155 |
| 2024 | 1,973 | 150 |
| 2025 | 1,981 | 149 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 5 | 13,254 |
| 2019 | 10 | 7,939 |
| 2020 | 8 | 9,156 |
| 2021 | 7 | 10,285 |
| 2022 | 5 | 13,355 |
| 2023 | 6 | 11,568 |
| 2024 | 5 | 13,306 |
| 2025 | 5 | 12,996 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 4 | 4,763 |
| 2017 | 11 | 2,341 |
| 2018 | 13 | 2,090 |
| 2019 | 16 | 1,782 |
| 2020 | 20 | 1,507 |
| 2021 | 37 | 936 |
| 2022 | 41 | 857 |
| 2023 | 51 | 706 |
| 2024 | 52 | 722 |
| 2025 | 39 | 894 |

## People named Kehlani

- Kehlani, American singer-songwriter (born 1995)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.