Kalanii

Gender: Girl
Say it: ka-LAH-nee
Origin: Hawaiian
US rank, 2025: #7,883 for girls

Kalanii is a girls' name of Hawaiian origin, meaning “the heavens; the sky”. In 2025 it ranked 7,883rd for girls in the US (13 babies).

What does Kalanii mean?

Hawaiian: spelling variant of Kalani

“the heavens; the sky”

Kalani comes from Hawaiian ka lani, 'the heavens', a word also used of royalty.

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

Kalanii is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Kalanii in the US?

Rank in 2025: 7,883rd among girls
Babies in 2025: 13 about 1 in 120,000 girls
Five-year trend: Rising up 97% in five years
Same name in a class: under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 13 girls in the US were named Kalanii, making it the 7,883rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,208th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 27 girls. It first appears in the records in 2011.

Half of all the girls named Kalanii in the US since 1880 were born between 2020 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 1,553 girls in the US were given Kalanii or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #230, up from #7,883 for this spelling alone.

Kalani 800
Kahlani 306
Khalani 293
Calani 66
Cahlani 18
Kalany 16
Kalanie 14
Kalanii 13

2011Busiest: 27 in 20242025

Kalanii in the US, year by year

Year	Girls	Rank
2025	13	#7,883
2024	27	#4,890
2023	19	#6,164
2022	13	#8,027
2021	8	#11,141
2020	15	#7,208
2019	9	#10,467
2018	6	#13,788
2017	0	–
2016	0	–
2015	0	–
2014	0	–
2013	0	–
2012	0	–
2011	5	#16,756