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Zylani

Gender
Girl
Say it
zy-LAH-nee
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#4,757 for girls

Zylani is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,757th for girls in the US (28 babies).

Where does Zylani come from?

Modern: blend of Zy- with the -lani ending of Leilani

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

Zylani is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 28 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Zylani in the US?

Rank in 2025
#4,757among girls
Babies in 2025
28about 1 in 57,000 girls
Five-year trend
Rising fastup 900% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 28 girls in the US were named Zylani, making it the 4,757th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. It first appears in the records in 2020.

It has been given to more girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had the most girls named Zylani of any year since it first appeared, in 2020.

Half of all the girls named Zylani in the US since 1880 were born between 2023 and 2025, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 85 girls in the US were given Zylani or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,892, up from #4,757 for this spelling alone.

2020Busiest: 28 in 20252025
Zylani in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202528#4,757
202421#5,796
202311#8,984
20225#15,300
20217#12,201
20206#13,448

Names like Zylani

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

Other spellings of Zylani

Names related to Zylani

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, “Zylani: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zylani, updated 20 October 2026.