What does Lani mean in Hawaiian?
Lani is a Hawaiian unisex name that means sky, heaven, royal. The name comes from lani (heaven, sky, chief). It is pronounced LAH-nee, with 2 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Lani belongs with other Hawaiian names about heaven, sky and royalty.
The words inside Lani
lani means sky, heaven and appears in 53 Hawaiian names, among them Kailani, Kalani, Leilani, Nalani.
How to pronounce Lani
Say every vowel. The vowels in Lani are a as in “father”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Lani a boy or girl name?
Lani is listed here as unisex. Of the 7,313 U.S. babies given it, 97% were girls and 3% boys.
How often Lani is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 7,313 U.S. babies named Lani from 1917 to 2023 (7,130 girls, 183 boys). It appears in 89 of those 107 years. Its peak was 1979, with 143. The 2014 to 2023 total of 824 is fewer than in all earlier years combined. In Hawaiʻi itself, 437 babies born in the state were named Lani from 1940 to 2021, with a peak of 26 in 1955. No year after 1991 reached five births of one sex there.
How well recorded is Lani?
Lani has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.