Kalany
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ka-LAH-nee
- Origin
- Hawaiian
- US rank, 2025
- #6,837 for girls
Kalany is a girls' name of Hawaiian origin, meaning “the heavens, the sky”. In 2025 it ranked 6,837th for girls in the US (16 babies).
What does Kalany 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 Kalany a girl's or a boy's name?
Kalany is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 16 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kalany in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,837among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 16about 1 in 100,000 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, 16 girls in the US were named Kalany, making it the 6,837th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,541st. It first appears in the records in 2003.
2025 had the most girls named Kalany of any year since it first appeared, in 2003.
Half of all the girls named Kalany in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,553 girls in the US were given Kalany or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #230, up from #6,837 for this spelling alone.
Kalany in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,837 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,438 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,541 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,337 |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,143 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 8 | #11,964 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,424 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,146 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
Names like Kalany
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kailani Kehlani Kaylani Meilani Nalani Ailany Malani Kaelani Naylani Noa Alani Nailani
Other spellings of Kalany
Kalani Kahlani Khalani Calani Cahlani Kalanie Kalanii Kalahni
Names related to Kalany
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, “Kalany: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kalany, updated 20 October 2026.