Kalani
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A unisex given name from Hawaiian
Used for both men and women· registers list it under both sexes; no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 26 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/kalani/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Kalani is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 54K(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 91K
- SESweden1 in 352K
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.
- Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 278 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A unisex given name from Hawaiian.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Kalani, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kalani 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LK Sri Lanka | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Kalani | 21 |
| US United States | 6,198 | 1 in 54K | 4.4K | Kalani | 278 |
| IN India | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 627K | 373 | Kalani | 54 |
| AU Australia | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 91K | 6 | Kalani | 81 |
| BR Brazil | 140 | 1 in 1.5M | 140 | — | — |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 182K | 14 | Kalani | 24 |
| SE Sweden | 29 | 1 in 352K | 29 | — | 3 |
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; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)Kalani is also recorded in 5 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 male or (less commonly) female given name from Hawaiian
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, virile nominative/vocative plural of kalany
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, terminative singular of kala
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, inflection of kala:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, navrt; kalem
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
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)- Kalani Sitakeb. 1975TOAmerican football player and coach
- Kalani Brownb. 1997USAmerican basketball player (born 1997)
- Kalani Kossa-Rienzib. 2002USAmerican soccer player
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)Evidence
(measured from records)48 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kalani mean, and where does it come from?
- A unisex given name from Hawaiian. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Kalani a male or female name?
- Kalani is used for both men and women. National registers that list it by sex count it under both: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Brazil (IBGE). We don't publish a percentage split.
- How do you pronounce Kalani?
- In Spanish /kalani/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people named Kalani?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Kalani in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kalani. After it come United States, India, Australia and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kalani?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,198 people named Kalani in 2020, about 1 in 54 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kalani?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kalaniThe 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, “Kalani”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.