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Kaylani

#185 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Kailani

Kaylani has been given to 11,877 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #185 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 1,675 recorded.

Babies named Kaylani, 2025

1 in 1,980

Kaylani over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05001K1.5K2K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kaylani: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Kailani

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kaylani means

Kaylani is a variant of Kailani.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Kaylani → Kailani. The family’s meaning is “sea + sky”, recorded in Hawaiian with the source elements kai and lani.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kailani.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11,877 girls were recorded with the name Kaylani between 1987 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,675 in 2025; its best national rank was #185 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #341 in 2020 to #185 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,054 in 2015 to #185 in 2025.

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 Kaylani?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 1,980
1,675 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 960
0.10% of girls
Rank, 2025
#185
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
1,373 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kaylani 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 2025 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 301%
Grade of 1005%
School of 50022%

Put another way: gather 1,373 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaylani. In a class of 30 the chance is 1%.

When Kaylanis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaylani was born before 2021 — so the typical Kaylani is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
63.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11,877
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 63.1% of all recorded uses (7,490).

Is Kaylani 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
+55
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+156
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+869
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
6.70×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (1,675)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#185
2025

Spellings of Kaylani

Kaylani is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 60.1% against Kaylani's 2.1%.

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 Kaylani is used

Across 2016–2025, Kaylani was most concentrated in Rhode Island — about 1 in 690 girls, against 1 in 1,412 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in 11,111).

9145 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Rhode Island1 in 690
  2. 2New Mexico1 in 806
  3. 3Nevada1 in 813
  4. 4Connecticut1 in 877
  5. 5Delaware1 in 952
  6. 6Florida1 in 971
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 1,020
  8. 8Arizona1 in 1,053

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.

Geographically, Kaylani is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 37% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Kaylani around the world

Where Kaylani ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2010–2025
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • France
    2013–2025
    #5,618
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2018–2024
    #1,709
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Kaylani by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#185
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 156
Best rank ever
#185
2025
Peak year
2025
1,675 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
11,877
Count in 2025
1,675

Names similar to Kaylani

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

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Names with a curve like Kaylani

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kaylani, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Kaylani

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

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