Nalani

Where Nalani comes from

Borrowing (or misspelling) from Hawaiian Nālani.
— Wiktionary's entry for Nalani
  • Hawaiian
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1946
    First appearance
    #3,994 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2025
    Peak, #414
    754 babies named Nalani — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hawaiian.
  • A male given name from Hawaiian.
Namesakes

No widely known Nalani 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.