Kawailani

Girls' name

The + water

Kawailani has been given to 42 babies in the U.S. since 2002. 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 2022, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Kawailani, 2023

1 in 552,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kawailani: meaning, origin, and history

The + water

Hawaiian

What Kawailani means

Kawailani means “the + water”, associated with ka and wai.

Origin, language, and formation

Kawailani is used in Hawaiian. Its origins include Hawaiian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hawaiian, Kawailani is pronounced /kaˌwai̯ˈla.ni/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 42 girls were recorded with the name Kawailani between 2002 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2022; its best national rank was #11,711 in 2022.

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 Kawailani?

Kawailani had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023: 1 in 552,000; 6 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only: 1 in 267,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 382,940 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Kawailani 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 2023 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 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kawailani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kawailanis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kawailani was born before 2016 — so the typical Kawailani is around 9 today.

Median birth year: 2016; About 9 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 47.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 42; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 47.6% of all recorded uses (20).

Is Kawailani 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 2022 (8)
Years since peak: 3; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 29.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #11,711; 2022

Spellings of Kawailani

Kawailani is not the most common spelling — Kailani is, with 99.7% against Kawailani's 0.33%.

Kailani99.7%12,778
Kawailani0.33%42

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.

Kawailani 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: #11,711; 2022
Peak year: 2022; 8 that year
First recorded: 2002
Last recorded: 2023
All-time count: 42
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Kawailani

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

Kawehilani Katyayani Keihlani Narayani Kawaii Kheilani Airalani Leihlani Lilliani Kheumani Leighlani Devyani Dahlani Kaiyani Kelhani Yailani Laiyani Ayliani Tailani Yuliani Keelani Noalani Zyalani Jhelani

Sibling names for Kawailani

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

Ezra Sapphire Scout Amayah Shoshana Nila Everlee Zariyah

For a brother

Loyal Avi Rayden Zeke Gian Rishi Tripp Apollo

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