Cailani
Girl · Hawaiian
Cailani is a girls' name of Hawaiian origin, meaning “sea”. In 2025 it ranked 5,237th for girls in the US (24 babies).
What does Cailani mean?
Hawaiian: spelling of Kailani
“sea”
A female given name from Hawaiian.
Meaning borrowed from Kailani. From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Cailani a girl's or a boy's name?
Cailani is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 24 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Cailani in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,237among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 24about 1 in 67,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 29% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 24 girls in the US were named Cailani, making it the 5,237th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,554th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 25 girls. It first appears in the records in 2017.
Half of all the girls named Cailani in the US since 1880 were born between 2020 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,833 girls in the US were given Cailani or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #197, up from #5,237 for this spelling alone.
Cailani in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,237 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,391 |
| 2023 | 16 | #6,917 |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,635 |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,087 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,554 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,106 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,006 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
Names like Cailani
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kehlani Meilani Kalani Kaylani Nalani Malani Naylani Xolani Kaelani Nailani Alani Milani
Other spellings of Cailani
Kailani Kailany Khailani Kailanie Kailanny Khailany Kailanni
Names related to Cailani
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