What does Kailani mean in Hawaiian?
Kailani is a Hawaiian girl name that means sea and sky. The name comes from kai (sea) + lani (sky, heaven). It is pronounced kye-LAH-nee, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kailani belongs with other Hawaiian names about ocean, sky and heaven.
The words inside Kailani
kai means sea, seawater and appears in 12 Hawaiian names, among them Kai, Kaimana, ʻAukai, Kaikoa.
lani means sky, heaven and appears in 53 Hawaiian names, among them Kalani, Leilani, Lani, Nalani.
How to pronounce Kailani
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kailani are a as in “father”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kailani a boy or girl name?
Kailani is listed here as a girl's name. Of the 10,438 U.S. babies given it, 100% were girls and 0% boys.
How often Kailani is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 10,438 U.S. babies named Kailani from 1980 to 2023 (10,393 girls, 45 boys). It appears in 42 of those 44 years. Its peak came in 2022, with 1,356, and 8,106 were born from 2014 to 2023. In Hawaiʻi itself, 233 babies born in the state were named Kailani from 1994 to 2021, with a peak of 20 in 2011. 135 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Kailani?
Kailani has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.