Leilani
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Hawaiian: 'heavenly flower' or 'royal child'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Leilani is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 9.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 11K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 28K
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
- 396 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.2K (inferred from the name graph)
29,592 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Hawaiian: 'heavenly flower' or 'royal child'.
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Leilani 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 | — | 29,592 | 1 in 11K | 30K | Leilani | 396 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Leilani | 86 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 6 | Leilani | 93 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 5 | Leilani | 113 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Leilani | 29 |
| NZ New Zealand | #829 | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 29 | Leilani | 62 |
29,592 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; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). 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)
Leilani 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 English, A female given name from Hawaiian.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hawaiian, a female or (rarely) male given name from Hawaiian, popular since the end of the 19th century
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)
- Lani Hallb. 1945USnot in their usual nameAmerican musician
- Leilani Jonesb. 1957USAmerican actress
- Leilani Sarelleb. 1966USactress from the United States
- Leilani Bishopb. 1976USAmerican model
- Yoshika Katob. 1985JPnot in their usual nameJapanese model, actress (1985-)
- Leilani Mitchellb. 1985USAustralian basketball player (born 1985)
- Leilani Wilsonb. 1986game composer
- Raven Leilanib. 1990USAmerican writer
- Leilani Leeaneb. 1992USAmerican pornographic actress & model
- Leilani Capalotb. 1997USdaughter of Stacia Mac
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)
Attested in 64 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 30K | #1,262 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 3.8K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 48 | #1,262 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 29 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 2025 | 29 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 6 | #675 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 6 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2017 | 5 | — |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2017 | 5 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2017 | 5 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2011 | 5 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- What does the name Leilani mean, and where does it come from?
- Hawaiian: 'heavenly flower' or 'royal child'. Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- In which country does Leilani have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 30 thousand people named Leilani, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leilani.
- What are other forms of the name Leilani?
- In the etymology graph, Leilany and Heirani are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Leilani?
- In the United States, the national register counted 29,592 people named Leilani in 2020, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Leilani compared with other names?
- In New Zealand, Leilani is the 829th most common given name of 26,737 given names recorded there.
- Is Leilani a male or female name?
- Leilani 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.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leilaniThe 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, “Leilani” — the 829th most common given name in New Zealand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.