Nālani
given name · Latin script
Nālani is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: nā, plural definite article + lani (“sky”) = "the heavens, the chiefs".
- GYGuyana1 in 54K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 88K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 170Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 221 (measured from records)
- 1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nalani in US United States, MY Malaysia, IN India and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)nā, plural definite article + lani (“sky”) = "the heavens, the chiefs".
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nālani counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 337K | 22 | Nalani | 12 |
| US United States | 3,764 | 1 in 88K | 3.7K | Nalani | 221 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 167K | — | Nalani | 12 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Nalani | 18 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 491K | — | Nalani | 9 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 156K | — | Nalani | 3 |
| GY Guyana | 14 | 1 in 54K | 14 | Nalani | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Agnes Lumb. 1956USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor, model and singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nālani mean, and where does it come from?
- nā, plural definite article + lani (“sky”) = "the heavens, the chiefs". Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people named Nālani?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.3 thousand people named Nālani in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nalani. After it come United States, Malaysia, Indonesia and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Nālani most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nālani is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 54 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nālani?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,764 people named Nālani in 2020, about 1 in 88 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/n%C4%81laniThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nālani” — ranked 73948th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.