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“Variant of Kailani — Combines Hawaiian words for ocean (kai) and sky (lani)” — Hawaiian origin
Girl's name · #185 in the US (2025) · Trending
Kaylani is climbing: on the charts since 1987, it reached #185 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet, with about 1,700 girls given the name last year. Roughly 12,000 have carried it all-time. Together with its spelling variants Kailani (#253) and Kailany (#581), Kaylani would rank around #70 with about 3,400 births last year — the newborns split about 49/36/15 across Kaylani, Kailani, and Kailany.
Around the world: about 1 in 530 girls in Puerto Rico (2025) · about 1 in 11,000 girls in Canada (2024).
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 39 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
Similar names: Kailani · Ailani · Kalani · Journee · Naia · Kaia
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