Kehlani

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

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◐

Kehlani is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Serbian given name8 records spelled Kehlani7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States

  Also written Кейлани, Keilani

21 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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 11 years between 2015–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Kehlanib. 1995USAmerican singer-songwriter (born 1995)

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 · 65 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Kehlani?

We estimate roughly 16 people bear Kehlani (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.

In which country does Kehlani have the most bearers?

Kehlani is most frequently recorded in Canada, where it is most often spelled kehlani.

Is Kehlani a male or female name?

Kehlani 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.