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Leilahni

Gender
Girl
Say it
lay-LAH-nee
Origin
Hawaiian
US rank, 2025
#7,131 for girls

Leilahni is a girls' name of Hawaiian origin, meaning “heavenly flower”. In 2025 it ranked 7,131st for girls in the US (15 babies).

What does Leilahni mean?

Hawaiian: respelling of Leilani

“heavenly flower”

A respelling of the Hawaiian name Leilani, from lei 'garland, flower' and lani 'heaven, sky'.

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

Leilahni 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 Leilahni 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 89% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 15 girls in the US were named Leilahni, making it the 7,131st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,964th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 26 girls. It first appears in the records in 2006.

Half of all the girls named Leilahni in the US since 1880 were born between 2018 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 5,290 girls in the US were given Leilahni or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #46, up from #7,131 for this spelling alone.

2006Busiest: 26 in 20232025
Leilahni in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202515#7,131
202412#8,438
202326#4,996
202212#8,536
202113#8,019
202013#7,964
20199#10,467
20186#13,788
201711#9,337
20160–
20150–
20147#13,063
20136#14,577
20120–
20110–
20100–
20090–
20080–
20070–
20065#17,163

Nicknames for Leilahni

Names like Leilahni

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Leilahni

Names related to Leilahni

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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, “Leilahni: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/leilahni, updated 20 October 2026.