Leylani

What Leylani means

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

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #2,278 in 2015, #970 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Leylani?

US: Rising: up from #2278 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 263 girls got the name (#970 that year). First in the US records in 1999.

How common

• About 1 in 6,111 baby girls in the US 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 KS (0.42 per 1,000 girls), GA (0.35 per 1,000 girls), IL (0.34 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Leylani is #970 in the US. It is not in the England & Wales list for 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 Leylani were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Leilani3,792 US · 53 E&W
• Leilany407 US
• Laylani353 US
• Lailani227 US
• Lelani37 US
• Leilanni35 US
• Lolani35 US
• Layloni30 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 Leylani

Girls

• Kaia#193Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #447 in 2015, #193 in 2025
• Emersyn#138Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #138 vs #3,705 in 2025
• Selah#216“to hang”^*
• Poppy#292Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #7 vs #292 in 2025
• Ximena#183Basque, meaning “son”^*
• Gia#287Editor’s note Up from #372 in 2015 to #287 in 2025 in the US

For a brother

• Julian#25“Roman personal name”^*
• Emiliano#94Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #94 vs #1,359 in 2025
• Ronan#247Irish, meaning “little seal”^*
• Sebastian#16“august, venerable, exalted”^*
• Malakai#213Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #491 in 2015, #213 in 2025
• Beckham#168“homestead”^*

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 Leylani’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.