Kaiulani
Kaiulani was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,142 among girls’ names; 454 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaiulani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaiulani?
#9,142 among girls’ names, 2025
Kaiulani rose from #9,204 in 2015 to #9,142 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.7 to 6.8 per million.
22 babies in 2011, the peak
Kaiulani peaked in 2011, when 22 girls were given it, #6,037 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,142 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,603 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,713 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,259 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,608 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,747 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,854 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,888 | 12.3 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,397 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,453 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #9,204 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,235 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,200 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,720 | 10.8 |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,037 | 12.5 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,723 | 5.1 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,320 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,204 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,469 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,333 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,270 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,828 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,850 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,512 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,274 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,652 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,706 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,018 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,996 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,098 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,168 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,004 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,269 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,631 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,719 | 3.7 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,689 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,445 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,090 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,726 | 4.1 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,001 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,501 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,043 | 5.4 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,250 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,295 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaiulani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaiulani has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kaiulani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaiulani, and how old are they?
An estimated 448 Americans named Kaiulani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 9 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 368 people named Kaiulani (362 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 387 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 43,413 babies since 1880, Kaiulani is the seventh most given (1.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 4,659 babies (<1%), again the seventh most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kaiulani
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Kaiulani and names like it
- Compare Kaiulani and KailaniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKaiulani peaked in 2011.
- Hawaii’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaiulani since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Kaiulani.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kaiulani alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.