Leilanni
Feminine · “heavenly flowers”
Leilanni is a spelling of Leilani, and the second half of the Hawaiian compound does double duty — lani is the sky, and it is also the word for royal.
How old is the name Leilanni?
Leilanni first appears in US birth records in 2003 — 22 years ago. The typical Leilanni is a kid of about 7 — this name's wave is very recent. About 500 people named Leilanni are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Leilanni most popular?
Leilanni peaked in 2023, reaching #3525 nationally. Today it ranks #4067, 542 places below that high. See the whole 2023 chart.
Where it comes from
From lei lani to Leilanni
The story of Leilanni
Hawaiian chiefly rank was understood in terms of the sky, and lani appears constantly in the names of ali'i — Kalani, Kalanianaʻole, Liliʻuokalani. A lei is a garland. Leilani was popularized outside Hawaii by a 1930s song and has been in American records ever since, and Leilanni with a doubled n is a recent respelling.
Meaning
heavenly flowers, royal child
From Hawaiian lei, a garland, and lani, sky or heaven; because Hawaiian chiefs were of the sky, lani also means royal, so the compound reads as royal garland or heavenly child equally well.
How the name formed
- lei lani
- Leilani
- Leilanni
Related forms: Leilani · Kalani
Pronouncing Leilanni
lay-LAH-nee
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Every vowel is sounded in Hawaiian.
Nicknames for Leilanni
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 2003
- Most girls named
- 202344 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3525reached in 2023
- Change vs 2024
- −16.7%35 in 2025, from 42
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Leilanni in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Leilani in Hawaiian — spelling variant
- Kalani in Hawaiian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Washington.
Leilannis among us
people named Leilanni are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 45,922 born in 2025 was named Leilanni
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Leilanni
- #4067
- Leilanni on the 2025 chart
- #54
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Leilanni went to 35 girls in 2025, but Leilani, Leilany and Leylani are the same name said out loud. Together the 8 spellings went to 4,540, which makes it the 54th most-given girls’ name of the year — 4,013 places above the chart.
and 4 rarer spellings.
About 1 girl in 354 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 45,922 for Leilanni itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Jensine test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Leilanni's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jensine climbed just as high around 1987, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jensine's path sketches the road Leilanni is walking now.
Leilanni sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Leilanni is headed
Leilanni looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 20% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Leilanni beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Leilanni in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning with two good senses layered on one another.
- Lani is a complete Hawaiian name in its own right and a ready short form.
- Every vowel is sounded, so it reads correctly at first sight in most languages.
- Leilani is the standard Hawaiian spelling and the doubled n has no basis in it.
- It is a Hawaiian word, and Hawaiian families have views about its use by outsiders.
- Leilani, Leilanni and Lelani are all in use and only the first is standard.
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Frequently asked
- How many Leilannis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Leilanni are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Leilanni?
- Leilanni is one of 4 recorded spellings. Leilani is the more common one — 3,792 births in 2025 against 35 for Leilanni.
- How popular is the name Leilanni in 2025?
- Leilanni ranks #4067 among US girl names in 2025, with 35 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Leilanni?
- About 1 in every 45,922 US girls born in 2025 was named Leilanni — 35 in all.
- Will my child share the name Leilanni with classmates?
- Leilanni will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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