What does Kamalani mean in Hawaiian?
Kamalani is a Hawaiian unisex name that means heavenly child, royal child. The name comes from kama (child) + lani (heaven, royal). It is pronounced kah-mah-LAH-nee, with 4 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kamalani belongs with other Hawaiian names about heaven and royalty.
Heavenly child
Kamalani is kama (child, person) and lani (heaven, royal), the heavenly or royal child. Kama is a plainer word for child than keiki, and it appears in many names and terms, such as kamaʻāina, a child of the land, meaning someone local.
The name is used for both girls and boys. Kamaliʻi, a related word, means children in general, and Kamalani singles out one.
The words inside Kamalani
kama means child, person and appears in 4 Hawaiian names, among them Kama, Kamalei, Kamaʻāina.
lani means sky, heaven and appears in 53 Hawaiian names, among them Kailani, Kalani, Leilani, Lani.
How to pronounce Kamalani
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kamalani are a as in “father”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kamalani a boy or girl name?
Kamalani is listed here as unisex. Of the 292 U.S. babies given it, 98% were girls and 2% boys.
How often Kamalani is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 292 U.S. babies named Kamalani from 1994 to 2023 (286 girls, 6 boys). It appears in 27 of those 30 years. Its peak was 2004, with 19. The 2014 to 2023 total of 70 is fewer than in all earlier years combined. In Hawaiʻi itself, 168 babies born in the state were named Kamalani from 1994 to 2021, with a peak of 15 in 1997. 12 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Kamalani?
Kamalani has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.