Kalahni
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ka-LAH-nee
- Origin
- Hawaiian
- US rank, 2025
- #8,360 for girls
Kalahni is a girls' name of Hawaiian origin, meaning “the heavens, sky”. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).
What does Kalahni mean?
Hawaiian: spelling of Kalani, from ka lani 'the heavens'
“the heavens, sky”
Is Kalahni a girl's or a boy's name?
Kalahni is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kalahni in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,360th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12 about 1 in 130,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 7% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Kalahni, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,321st. Its busiest year was 2019, with 26 girls. It first appears in the records in 2016.
Half of all the girls named Kalahni in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,553 girls in the US were given Kalahni or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #230, up from #8,360 for this spelling alone.
Kalahni in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,360 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,440 |
| 2023 | 20 | #5,955 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,536 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,245 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,321 |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,039 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,405 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,836 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,408 |
Names like Kalahni
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kehlani, Kailani, Kaylani, Meilani, Nalani, Malani, Kaelani, Naylani, Nailani, Xolani, Kylani, Alani
Other spellings of Kalahni
Kalani, Kahlani, Khalani, Calani, Cahlani, Kalany, Kalanie, Kalanii
Names related to Kalahni
More Hawaiian names
Kai, Leilani, Koa, Makai, Keanu, Koah, Kailany, Leilany, Laylani, Kaleo, Lani, Luana, Leylani, Lailani, Makoa, Nakoa
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, “Kalahni: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kalahni, updated 20 October 2026.