Kehlani
14,532 recorded births · active 2015–2025
Compare Kehlani →Living-age distribution
The median living Kehlani is 4. If you meet a Kehlani, there's about a 70% chance they're between 2 and 7 years old.
Popularity arc
Peak Kehlani: 2025. Down 4% from peak.
Gender balance
Kehlani is almost always given to female babies — 99.7% female.
Rarity
Kehlani ranks #2,247 out of 105,966 names ever recorded by the SSA.
Geographic fingerprint
Kehlanis are 1.6x more common in the South than the national average.
Predictive modeling
Three statistical models, all fit to Kehlani's own SSA history plus the historical behavior of every other name in the dataset.
Peak popularity prediction
Kehlani's modeled peak was #344 in 2025 — its trend isn't projected to beat that.
Not enough continuous recent history to project a peak rank.
Name life-cycle stage
A rule-based classifier over recent growth, momentum, and peak proximity.
Kehlani's all-time high was just this year — it's at or very near its historic peak right now.
Popularity survival model
Once a name reaches a rank tier, how long does it typically stay there before falling out?
Built from a Kaplan-Meier survival curve: every historical run any name has ever had above this tier, with runs still ongoing today counted as still in progress rather than as an exit.Kehlani isn't currently in the Top 100 tier. Estimated chance of entering it in the forecast window: 0%.
If Kehlani enters Top 100, chance it's still there after:
Names that do enter Top 100 have historically stayed a median of ~19 years. Based on 668 historical Top 100 runs across every name in the dataset.