Keilani

What Keilani means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Keilani yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #727 vs #4,201 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Keilani?

US: Rising: up from #1545 in 2015. England & Wales: New in the last 10 years.

Biggest US share so far: 2023, when 457 girls got the name (#641 that year). First in the US records in 1975.

How common

• About 1 in 4,197 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 50,656 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in HI (2.33 per 1,000 girls), MS (1.12 per 1,000 girls), MD (0.45 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Keilani is #727 in the US and #4201 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Keilani were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Kehlani1,981 US · 39 E&W
• Kaylani1,675 US · 9 E&W
• Kailani1,215 US · 3 E&W
• Kalani800 US · 12 E&W
• Kailany511 US
• Kahlani306 US
• Keilany191 US
• Keylani160 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Keilani

Girls

• Maeve#76“intoxicating”^*
• Alani#161Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #529 in 2015, #161 in 2025
• Amira#132“princess”^*
• Parker#106From a surname for “a gamekeeper”^*
• Luna#27“the moon”^*
• Naomi#47“my pleasantness”^*

For a brother

• Luka#85Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #85 vs #261 in 2025
• Kai#93“warrior”^*
• Luca#14Form of Lucy, meaning “light”^*
• Ezekiel#61“God strengthens”^*
• Amir#105“commander, prince”^*
• Mateo#8Same root as Matthew, meaning “gift of the Lord”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Keilani’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.