Kehlanii
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- keh-LAH-nee
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #7,131 for girls
Kehlanii is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 7,131st for girls in the US (15 babies).
What does Kehlanii mean?
Modern: spelling of Kehlani, a Hawaiian-style modern name
A spelling of Kehlani, made familiar by the American R&B singer Kehlani.
Is Kehlanii a girl's or a boy's name?
Kehlanii is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 15 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kehlanii in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 7,131st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 15 about 1 in 110,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 70% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 15 girls in the US were named Kehlanii, making it the 7,131st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,321st. Its busiest year was 2023, with 22 girls. It first appears in the records in 2017.
Half of all the girls named Kehlanii in the US since 1880 were born between 2020 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 2,279 girls in the US were given Kehlanii or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #156, up from #7,131 for this spelling alone.
Kehlanii in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,131 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,164 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,544 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,702 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,245 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,321 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,459 |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
Names like Kehlanii
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kaylani, Kailani, Kalani, Malani, Nailani, Naylani, Meilani, Kylani, Ilani, Xylani, Klani, Xolani
Other spellings of Kehlanii
Kehlani, Kelani, Khelani, Kehlany, Kelahni, Kehlanie, Kelany
Names related to Kehlanii
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya, Oaklynn
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, “Kehlanii: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kehlanii, updated 20 October 2026.