Kanoelani

Girls' name

The + mist

Kanoelani has been given to 79 babies in the U.S. since 1979. 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 2005, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Kanoelani, 2010

1 in 411,000

Kanoelani 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kanoelani: meaning, origin, and history

The + mist

Hawaiian

What Kanoelani means

Kanoelani means “the + mist”, associated with ka and noe.

Origin, language, and formation

Kanoelani is used in Hawaiian. Its origins include Hawaiian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hawaiian, Kanoelani is pronounced /ka.no.eˈla.ni/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 79 girls were recorded with the name Kanoelani between 1979 and 2010. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2005; its best national rank was #9,486 in 1979.

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 Kanoelani?

Kanoelani had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2010: 1 in 411,000; 9 of 3,695,928 births
Among girls only: 1 in 197,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2010: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 284,648 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Kanoelani 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 2010 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 284,648 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kanoelani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kanoelanis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kanoelani was born before 2002 — so the typical Kanoelani is around 23 today.

Median birth year: 2002; About 23 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 44.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 92.4%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 79; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 44.3% of all recorded uses (35).

Is Kanoelani 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 2005 (10)
Years since peak: 20; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 18.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #9,486; 1979

Spellings of Kanoelani

Kanoelani is not the most common spelling — Noelani is, with 72.4% against Kanoelani's 1.6%.

Noelani72.4%3,661
Kaelani26.0%1,315
Kanoelani1.6%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 Kanoelani is used

Across 1910–2025, Kanoelani was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 12,155 across all states with data.

88 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Hawaii1 in 12,500

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. Kanoelani has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kanoelani 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: #9,486; 1979
Peak year: 2005; 10 that year
First recorded: 1979
Last recorded: 2010
All-time count: 79
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Kanoelani

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

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Sibling names for Kanoelani

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

Jaci Yahaira Pilar Anisa Jamya Yajaira Anjali Anneliese

For a brother

Braulio Johnpaul Jamarion Paulo Yair Lavon Tye Deshaun

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