What does Ailani mean in Hawaiian?
Ailani is a Hawaiian unisex name that means high chief. The name comes from aliʻi (chief) + lani (heaven). It is pronounced eye-LAH-nee, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Ailani belongs with other Hawaiian names about royalty and heaven.
The words inside Ailani
aliʻi means chief, chiefess, royal and appears in 5 Hawaiian names, among them Kealiʻi, Keliʻi, Aliʻi, Kūaliʻi.
lani means sky, heaven and appears in 53 Hawaiian names, among them Kailani, Kalani, Leilani, Lani.
How to pronounce Ailani
Say every vowel. The vowels in Ailani are a as in “father”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Ailani a boy or girl name?
Ailani is listed here as unisex. Of the 5,135 U.S. babies given it, 100% were girls and 0% boys.
How often Ailani is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 5,135 U.S. babies named Ailani from 1996 to 2023, all girls. It appears every year from 1996 on. Its peak came in 2022, with 679, and 3,992 were born from 2014 to 2023. In Hawaiʻi itself, 13 babies born in the state were named Ailani from 2018 to 2021, with a peak of 7 in 2019. 13 were born there from 2012 to 2021. It is listed here as unisex, but every recorded U.S. birth has been a girl.
How well recorded is Ailani?
Ailani is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.