Name meaning & stats
Jelani
Jelani. 5,660 US babies since 1940, peak 2023.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
In US birth records
Peak year: 2023
5,660 US babies were named Jelani between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Jelani (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Name twins (peaked around 2023)