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Kailanni

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Kailanni is a girls' name of Hawaiian origin, meaning “sea”. In 2025 it ranked 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).

What does Kailanni mean?

Hawaiian: spelling of Kailani

“sea”

A female given name from Hawaiian.

Meaning borrowed from Kailani. From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Kailanni a girl's or a boy's name?

Kailanni is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Kailanni in the US?

Rank in 2025
#9,454among girls
Babies in 2025
10about 1 in 160,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 10 girls in the US were named Kailanni, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,625th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 18 girls. It first appears in the records in 2011.

Half of all the girls named Kailanni in the US since 1880 were born between 2018 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 1,833 girls in the US were given Kailanni or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #197, up from #9,454 for this spelling alone.

2011Busiest: 18 in 20212025
Kailanni in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202510#9,454
202410#9,551
202312#8,481
202210#9,674
202118#6,409
202017#6,625
20190–
20189#10,540
20179#10,685
20160–
20156#14,477
20145#16,507
20130–
20120–
20115#16,756

Names like Kailanni

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Kailanni

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