What does Kalani mean in Hawaiian?
Kalani is a Hawaiian unisex name that means the heavens, the royal one. The name comes from ka (the) + lani (heaven, royal). It is pronounced kah-LAH-nee, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kalani belongs with other Hawaiian names about heaven, royalty and sky.
The words inside Kalani
lani means sky, heaven and appears in 53 Hawaiian names, among them Kailani, Leilani, Lani, Nalani.
How to pronounce Kalani
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kalani are a as in “father”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kalani a boy or girl name?
Kalani is listed here as unisex. Of the 10,713 U.S. babies given it, 80% were girls and 20% boys.
How often Kalani is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 10,713 U.S. babies named Kalani from 1959 to 2023 (8,541 girls, 2,172 boys). It appears in 61 of those 65 years. Its peak came in 2021, with 1,002, and 6,644 were born from 2014 to 2023. In Hawaiʻi itself, 488 babies born in the state were named Kalani from 1961 to 2021, with a peak of 19 in 1989. 48 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Kalani?
Kalani has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.