Kailani

Meaning & origin●

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Kailani is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name4.2K records spelled Kailani6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Canada, Australia

  Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

  Also written Kai'Lani, Kai-Lani

• Arabic given name251 records spelled Kailani2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States

  Also written Kailānī

35 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Kailani is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Hawaiian, a female or (sometimes) male given name from Hawaiian, of modern usage

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Finnish, inflection of Kaila:

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 44 years between 1980–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Kailani Craineb. 1998AUAustralian figure skater

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 211 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Kailani?

We estimate roughly 5.3 thousand people bear Kailani (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Kailani have the most bearers?

We estimate about 4.4 thousand people bear Kailani in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled kailani.

Where is Kailani most common?

Kailani is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 75 thousand people carrying it.

Is Kailani a male or female name?

Kailani is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Kailani mean?

Recorded meaning: kai (“sea”) + lani (“sky”) = "heavenly sea".