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Keilani

#727 in 2025Girls' name

Glorious heaven

Keilani has been given to 5,309 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #727 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 466 recorded.

Babies named Keilani, 2025

1 in 8,660

Keilani over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Keilani: meaning, origin, and history

Glorious heaven

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Keilani means

Keilani means “glorious heaven”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,304 girls were recorded with the name Keilani between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 466 in 2022; its best national rank was #632 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #758 in 2020 to #727 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,548 in 2015 to #727 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Keilani between 2015 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2015; its best national rank was #13,086 in 2015.

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.

How common is Keilani?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 8,660
383 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,200
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#727
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,001 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Keilani 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 30Under 1%
Grade of 1001%
School of 5006%

Put another way: gather 6,001 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keilani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Keilanis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Keilani was born before 2019 — so the typical Keilani is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
46.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,304
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 46.3% of all recorded uses (2,456).

Is Keilani 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
+24
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+31
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+821
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.68×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
82.2%
Peak was 2022 (466)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#632
2022

Spellings of Keilani

Keilani is not the most common spelling — Leilani is, with 29.1% against Keilani's 2.7%.

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 Keilani is used

Across 2016–2025, Keilani was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 641 girls, against 1 in 4,406 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in 33,333).

3156 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 641
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 2,381
  3. 3California1 in 2,857
  4. 4Florida1 in 2,857
  5. 5Georgia1 in 2,857
  6. 6Arizona1 in 3,333
  7. 7Texas1 in 3,448
  8. 8Alabama1 in 3,846

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, Keilani is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 98% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Keilani around the world

Where Keilani 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
    2018–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2019–2023
    #2,222
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2003–2003
    #739
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Keilani by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#727
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 31
Best rank ever
#632
2022
Peak year
2022
466 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,304
Count in 2025
383

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#13,086
2015
Peak year
2015
5 that year
First recorded
2015
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Keilani

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

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Names with a curve like Keilani

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

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Sibling names for Keilani

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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