Yolani

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 7 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
7
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Yolani by the numbers

Yolani was given to 7 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 9 babies in 2015, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Yolani

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.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Yolani. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Yalani10 in the US (2017)
  • Yelani6 in the US (2017)
  • Yolandaviolet flower; from iole113 in the US (2017)
  • YohanaGod is gracious; feminine form of John49 in the US (2017)
  • YoanaGod is gracious; a form of Joanna12 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Yoalinight; a form of Yoalli10 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Yolani

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