Zehlani
- Gender
- Girl
- US rank, 2025
- #6,837 for girls
Zehlani is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 6,837th for girls in the US (16 babies).
Is Zehlani a girl's or a boy's name?
Zehlani is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 16 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zehlani in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,837th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 16 about 1 in 100,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 16 girls in the US were named Zehlani, making it the 6,837th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. It first appears in the records in 2018.
2025 had the most girls named Zehlani of any year since it first appeared, in 2018.
Zehlani in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,837 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,117 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,635 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
Names like Zehlani
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kehlani, Nailani, Xolani, Kailani, Xylani, Kaylani, Meilani, Naylani, Ilani, Kalani, Malani, Ulani
Names related to Zehlani
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, “Zehlani: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zehlani, updated 20 October 2026.