Kailani
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kəɪlɑni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kailani is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: kai (“sea”) + lani (“sky”) = "heavenly sea".
- USUnited States1 in 74K(measured from records)
- PAPanama≈1 in 118K
- BRBrazil1 in 268K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 74K (inferred from the name graph)
4,469 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
kai (“sea”) + lani (“sky”) = "heavenly sea".
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kailani 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 4,469 | 1 in 74K | 4.4K | Kailani | 38 |
| BR Brazil | 789 | 1 in 268K | 1.2K | Kailani | 29 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | listed | — | — |
| ES Spain | 65 | 1 in 769K | 65 | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | 35 | 1 in 494K | 35 | — | — |
| PA Panama | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 118K | — | Kailani | 2 |
| BO Bolivia | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 511K | — | Kailani | 3 |
4,469 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); the id-github-names register. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kailani is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hawaiian, a female or (sometimes) male given name from Hawaiian, of modern usage
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, inflection of Kaila:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kailani Craineb. 1998AUAustralian figure skater
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 42 sources across 25 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Kailani?
- A machine transcription gives /kəɪlɑni/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Kailani mean, and where does it come from?
- kai (“sea”) + lani (“sky”) = "heavenly sea". Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Kailani a male or female name?
- Kailani is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Kailani?
- In the etymology graph, Kaylani and Kehlani are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Kailani have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.5 thousand people named Kailani, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kailani.
- Where is Kailani most common?
- Kailani is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 74 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kailani?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,469 people named Kailani in 2020, about 1 in 74 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kailani?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kailaniThe 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, “Kailani”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.