Lokelani

#11,502 in 2025Girls' name

The rose flower

Lokelani has been given to 149 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #11,502 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Lokelani, 2025

1 in 414,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lokelani: meaning, origin, and history

The rose flower

Hawaiian

What Lokelani means

Lokelani means “the rose flower”, associated with lokelani.

Origin, language, and formation

Lokelani is used in Hawaiian. Its origins include Hawaiian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hawaiian, Lokelani is pronounced /lo.keˈla.ni/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 149 girls were recorded with the name Lokelani between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2005; its best national rank was #9,645 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 Lokelani?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 414,000; 8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 201,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #11,502; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 287,238 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Lokelani 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 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lokelani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lokelanis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lokelani was born before 2008 — so the typical Lokelani is around 17 today.

Median birth year: 2008; About 17 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 33.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 71.1%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 149; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 33.6% of all recorded uses (50).

Is Lokelani 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: +5,194; Places climbed
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: 88.9%; Peak was 2005 (9)
Years since peak: 20; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 26.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #9,645; 1979

Spellings of Lokelani

Lokelani is not the most common spelling — Lorelai is, with 61.1% against Lokelani's 0.89%.

Lorelai61.1%10,253
Noelani21.8%3,661
Kelani10.2%1,708
Lelani6.0%1,010
Lokelani0.89%149

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 Lokelani is used

Across 1910–2025, Lokelani was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 23,094 across all states with data.

44 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Hawaii1 in 25,000

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

Lokelani by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #11,502
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #9,645; 1979
Peak year: 2005; 9 that year
First recorded: 1979
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 149
Count in 2025: 8

Names similar to Lokelani

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

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Sibling names for Lokelani

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

Sydni Sydnie Shyann Alysa Jacquelin Gabriel Shakira Cydney

For a brother

Aaden Kale Jarod Keven Zakary Garret Samual Donavon

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