Kailany
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ky-LAH-nee
- Origin
- Hawaiian
- US rank, 2025
- #581 for girls
Kailany is a girls' name of Hawaiian origin, meaning “sea + sky”. In 2025 it ranked 581st for girls in the US (511 babies).
What does Kailany mean?
Hawaiian: spelling of Kailani
“sea + sky”
A spelling of Kailani, from Hawaiian kai 'sea' and lani 'sky, heaven'.
Is Kailany a girl's or a boy's name?
Kailany is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 511 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kailany in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 581st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 511 about 1 in 3,100 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 214% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 511 girls in the US were named Kailany, making it the 581st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,571st. It first appears in the records in 2005.
It has been given to more girls each year for the last 11 years. 2025 had the most girls named Kailany of any year since it first appeared, in 2005.
Half of all the girls named Kailany in the US since 1880 were born between 2021 and 2025, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,833 girls in the US were given Kailany or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #197, up from #581 for this spelling alone.
Kailany in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 511 | #581 |
| 2024 | 297 | #896 |
| 2023 | 222 | #1,107 |
| 2022 | 213 | #1,143 |
| 2021 | 161 | #1,370 |
| 2020 | 134 | #1,571 |
| 2019 | 100 | #1,949 |
| 2018 | 94 | #2,059 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,088 |
| 2016 | 14 | #7,985 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,368 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,424 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,175 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,270 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,288 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,594 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
Nicknames for Kailany
- Kai 816 boys in the UK in 2025
Names like Kailany
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kehlani, Meilani, Kalani, Kaylani, Malani, Nalani, Ailany, Naylani, Noa, Milani, Alani, Xolani
Other spellings of Kailany
Kailani, Khailani, Cailani, Kailanie, Kailanny, Khailany, Kailanni
Names related to Kailany
More Hawaiian names
Kai, Leilani, Koa, Makai, Keanu, Koah, Leilany, Laylani, Kaleo, Lani, Luana, Leylani, Lailani, Makoa, Nakoa, Alakai
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, “Kailany: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kailany, updated 20 October 2026.