Khailani
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Hawaiian
- US rank, 2025
- #4,757 for girls
Khailani is a girls' name of Hawaiian origin, meaning “sea”. In 2025 it ranked 4,757th for girls in the US (28 babies).
What does Khailani mean?
Hawaiian: spelling of Kailani
“sea”
A female given name from Hawaiian.
Meaning borrowed from Kailani. From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Khailani a girl's or a boy's name?
Khailani is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 28 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Khailani in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,757th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 28 about 1 in 57,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 144% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 28 girls in the US were named Khailani, making it the 4,757th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. It first appears in the records in 2017.
2025 had the most girls named Khailani of any year since it first appeared, in 2017.
Half of all the girls named Khailani in the US since 1880 were born between 2021 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,833 girls in the US were given Khailani or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #197, up from #4,757 for this spelling alone.
Khailani in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #4,757 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,796 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,675 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,790 |
| 2021 | 16 | #6,962 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,401 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,459 |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
Names like Khailani
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kehlani, Kalani, Meilani, Kaylani, Nalani, Malani, Kaelani, Naylani, Xolani, Nailani, Kylani, Alani
Other spellings of Khailani
Kailani, Kailany, Cailani, Kailanie, Kailanny, Khailany, Kailanni
Names related to Khailani
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, “Khailani: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/khailani, updated 20 October 2026.