Kalani

Where Kalani comes from

Borrowed from Hawaiian Kalani.
— Wiktionary's entry for Kalani
  • Hawaiian
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1963
    First appearance
    #4,019 among girls, 11 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1994
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1997
    Kalani Brown born
    American basketball player
  4. 2002
    Kalani Kossa-Rienzi born
    American soccer player
  5. 2021
    Peak, #339
    959 babies named Kalani — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name from Hawaiian.
Namesakes
  • Kalani Brown · American basketball player, born 1997
  • Kalani Kossa-Rienzi · American soccer player, born 2002
  • Kalani Sitake · American football player and coach, born 1975

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.