Meilani

Where Meilani comes from

Modern American coinage, rhyming with Leilani. Can be interpreted as Hawaiian Mei + lani "heavenly May".
— Wiktionary's entry for Meilani
  • Hawaiian
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1982
    First appearance
    #10,517 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2025
    Peak, #590
    498 babies named Meilani — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hawaiian.
Namesakes

No widely known Meilani turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.