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Jeilani

Gender
Girl
Say it
jay-LAH-nee
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#5,721 for girls

Jeilani is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,721st for girls in the US (21 babies).

Where does Jeilani come from?

Modern: blend of Jay and Leilani

Is Jeilani a girl's or a boy's name?

Jeilani is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 21 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Jeilani in the US?

Rank in 2025
#5,721among girls
Babies in 2025
21about 1 in 77,000 girls
Five-year trend
Rising fastup 106% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 21 girls in the US were named Jeilani, making it the 5,721st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 28 girls. It first appears in the records in 2009.

Half of all the girls named Jeilani in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 860 girls in the US were given Jeilani or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #386, up from #5,721 for this spelling alone.

2009Busiest: 28 in 20232025
Jeilani in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202521#5,721
202425#5,145
202328#4,743
202221#5,790
202117#6,686
202011#8,948
201914#7,712
201811#9,146
20175#15,898
20165#16,210
201512#8,926
201414#8,050
20130–
20127#13,477
20117#13,339
20106#14,953
20095#17,288

Names like Jeilani

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Jeilani

Names related to Jeilani

More Modern names

Every Modern name

Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Jeilani: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jeilani, updated 20 October 2026.