Kailani

Where Kailani comes from

From Hawaiian Kailani, from kai (“sea”) + lani (“sky”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Kailani
  • Hawaiian
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1980
    First appearance
    #7,418 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1998
    Kailani Craine born
    Australian figure skater
  3. 2022
    Peak, #222
    1,350 babies named Kailani — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hawaiian.
Namesakes
  • Kailani Craine · Australian figure skater, born 1998

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.