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Girl's name · #253 in the US (2025) · Trending
Kailani is climbing: on the charts since 1980, it is ranked #253 in 2025, with about 1,200 girls given the name last year. Roughly 13,000 have carried it all-time.
In recent years, Kailani ran about 6× its national rate in Hawaii—where it ranked #16 in 2025.
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 41 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#65 in Puerto Rico (2025) · #201 in Mexico (2024) · #258 in Ecuador (2025) · #1,581 in Austria (2025) · #2,180 in Switzerland (2025) · #2,768 in France (2025) · #2,573 in Canada (2024).
Together with its spelling variants Kaylani (#185) and Kailany (#581), Kailani would rank around #70 with about 3,400 births last year — the newborns split about 49/36/15 across Kaylani, Kailani, and Kailany.
Similar names: Kaylani · Nalani · Kalani · Journee · Maliyah · Kaia
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