Nylani
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 11 babies a year in the US.
Nylani by the numbers
Nylani was given to 11 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 11 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Nylani
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
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