Cahlani
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ka-LAH-nee
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #6,324 for girls
Cahlani is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 6,324th for girls in the US (18 babies).
What does Cahlani mean?
Modern: spelling of Kahlani; Ka- + -lani, in the style of Leilani
A modern coinage ending in -lani, a Hawaiian word for sky or heaven, in the style of Leilani.
Meaning borrowed from Kahlani.
Is Cahlani a girl's or a boy's name?
Cahlani is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 18 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Cahlani in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,324among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 18about 1 in 89,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 53% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 18 girls in the US were named Cahlani, making it the 6,324th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,554th. It first appears in the records in 2017.
2025 had the most girls named Cahlani of any year since it first appeared, in 2017.
Half of all the girls named Cahlani in the US since 1880 were born between 2020 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,553 girls in the US were given Cahlani or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #230, up from #6,324 for this spelling alone.
Cahlani in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,324 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,590 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,635 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,626 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,459 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,554 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
Names like Cahlani
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kehlani Kaylani Malani Naylani Kailani Nailani Meilani Ilani Xolani Kylani Xylani Ahlani
Other spellings of Cahlani
Kalani Kahlani Khalani Calani Kalany Kalanie Kalanii Kalahni
Names related to Cahlani
More Modern names
Jayden Ailany Myla Kayden Nevaeh Jax Indie Miley Raelynn Kaiden Alayna Caden Zayden Wrenley Mya Oaklynn
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Cahlani: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/cahlani, updated 20 October 2026.