Kalani

Where Kalani comes from

Borrowed from Hawaiian Kalani.
— Wiktionary's entry for Kalani
  • Hawaiian
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Kalani through the years
  1. 1963
    First appearance
    #4,019 among girls with 11 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1994
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
  3. 1997
    Kalani Brown born
    American basketball player
  4. 2002
    Kalani Kossa-Rienzi born
    American soccer player
  5. 2021
    Peak, #339
    959 babies named Kalani, the most in any year.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name from Hawaiian.
Namesakes
  • Kalani Brown · American basketball player, born 1997
  • Kalani Kossa-Rienzi · American soccer player, born 2002
  • Kalani Sitake · American football player and coach, born 1975

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.