Lehlani
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- leh-LAH-nee
- Origin
- Hawaiian
- US rank, 2025
- #4,986 for girls
Lehlani is a girls' name of Hawaiian origin, meaning “heavenly garland”. In 2025 it ranked 4,986th for girls in the US (26 babies).
What does Lehlani mean?
Hawaiian: respelling of Leilani
“heavenly garland”
Leilani joins Hawaiian lei, 'garland, flower', with lani, 'heaven, sky'.
Is Lehlani a girl's or a boy's name?
Lehlani is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 26 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Lehlani in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,986th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 26 about 1 in 62,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 37% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 26 girls in the US were named Lehlani, making it the 4,986th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,167th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 45 girls. It first appears in the records in 2016.
2025 had fewer girls named Lehlani than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Lehlani in the US since 1880 were born between 2020 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 78 girls in the US were given Lehlani or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,009, up from #4,986 for this spelling alone.
- Lelani 37
- Lehlani 26
- Leelani 10
- Lelanie 5
Lehlani in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #4,986 |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,758 |
| 2023 | 45 | #3,475 |
| 2022 | 37 | #3,961 |
| 2021 | 43 | #3,552 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,167 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,445 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,148 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,088 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
Nicknames for Lehlani
- Lani 25 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Lehlani
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kehlani, Kailani, Meilani, Kalani, Kaylani, Nalani, Lalani, Malani, Nailani, Xolani, Naylani, Alani
Other spellings of Lehlani
Names related to Lehlani
More Hawaiian names
Kai, Koa, Makai, Keanu, Koah, Kailany, Leilany, Laylani, Kaleo, Lani, Luana, Lailani, Makoa, Nakoa, Alakai, Kaelani
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, “Lehlani: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lehlani, updated 20 October 2026.