Haunani

Girls' name

Snow + beauty

Haunani has been given to 79 babies in the U.S. since 1953. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1979, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Haunani, 2016

1 in 734,000

Haunani over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Haunani: meaning, origin, and history

Snow + beauty

Hawaiian

What Haunani means

Haunani means “snow + beauty”, associated with hau and nani.

Origin, language, and formation

Haunani is used in Hawaiian. Its origins include Hawaiian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hawaiian, Haunani is pronounced /hau̯ˈna.ni/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 79 girls were recorded with the name Haunani between 1953 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1979; its best national rank was #5,280 in 1953.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Haunani?

Haunani had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016: 1 in 734,000; 5 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only: 1 in 354,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 508,706 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Haunani sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Haunani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Haunanis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Haunani was born before 1980 — so the typical Haunani is around 45 today.

Median birth year: 1980; About 45 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 50.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 6.3%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 79; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 50.6% of all recorded uses (40).

Is Haunani rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1979 (11)
Years since peak: 46; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 30.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,280; 1953

Spellings of Haunani

Haunani is not the most common spelling — Hanan is, with 49.9% against Haunani's 1.9%.

Hanan49.9%2,081
Aulani26.8%1,117
Kanani21.5%895
Haunani1.9%79

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Haunani is used

Across 1910–2025, Haunani was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 10,041 across all states with data.

1010 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Hawaii1 in 10,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Haunani has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Haunani by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #5,280; 1953
Peak year: 1979; 11 that year
First recorded: 1953
Last recorded: 2016
All-time count: 79
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Haunani

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Haunani

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Bambi Shanika Mellissa Latosha Adria Lani Malissa Lindy

For a brother

Delvin Leopoldo Jerod Cedrick Reggie Torrey Jed Wilfredo

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