What does Kealani mean in Hawaiian?
Kealani is a Hawaiian girl name that means the clear sky, the white heaven. The name comes from kea (white, clear) + lani (sky). It is pronounced keh-ah-LAH-nee, with 4 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kealani belongs with other Hawaiian names about sky, heaven and light.
The words inside Kealani
kea means white, clear and appears in 4 Hawaiian names, among them Kolokea, Laʻakea, Puakea.
lani means sky, heaven and appears in 53 Hawaiian names, among them Kailani, Kalani, Leilani, Lani.
How to pronounce Kealani
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kealani are e as in “bet”, a as in “father”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kealani a boy or girl name?
Kealani is listed here as a girl's name. Of the 517 U.S. babies given it, 100% were girls and 0% boys.
How often Kealani is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 517 U.S. babies named Kealani from 1977 to 2023, all girls. It appears in 34 of those 47 years. Its peak was 2000, with 29. The 2014 to 2023 total of 141 is fewer than in all earlier years combined. In Hawaiʻi itself, 30 babies born in the state were named Kealani from 1997 to 2021, with a peak of 9 in 2000. 10 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Kealani?
Kealani has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.