Kalanie
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ka-LAH-nee
- Origin
- Hawaiian
- US rank, 2025
- #7,489 for girls
Kalanie is a girls' name of Hawaiian origin, meaning “the heavens, the sky”. In 2025 it ranked 7,489th for girls in the US (14 babies).
What does Kalanie mean?
Hawaiian: spelling of Kalani; from Hawaiian ka lani
“the heavens, the sky”
From Hawaiian ka lani, the sky or heavens, a word also used of royalty and high chiefs.
Meaning borrowed from Kalani. More on Wiktionary.
Is Kalanie a girl's or a boy's name?
Kalanie is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 14 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kalanie in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 7,489th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 14 about 1 in 110,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 14 girls in the US were named Kalanie, making it the 7,489th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. It first appears in the records in 2001.
It has been given to more girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had the most girls named Kalanie of any year since it first appeared, in 2001.
Half of all the girls named Kalanie in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,553 girls in the US were given Kalanie or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #230, up from #7,489 for this spelling alone.
Kalanie in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,489 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,962 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,557 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,467 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 10 | #9,939 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,408 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,230 |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,863 |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,816 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,814 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,049 |
Names like Kalanie
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kailani, Kehlani, Kaylani, Meilani, Nalani, Malani, Noa, Alani, Kaelani, Naylani, Nailani, Xolani
Other spellings of Kalanie
Kalani, Kahlani, Khalani, Calani, Cahlani, Kalany, Kalanii, Kalahni
Names related to Kalanie
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, “Kalanie: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kalanie, updated 20 October 2026.