Kealani
Kealani was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,102 among girls’ names; 545 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 Kealani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kealani mean?
Wiktionary, Hawaiian section
Kealani is “a female or (sometimes) male given name from Hawaiian” Its etymology gives the senses “white” (kea) and “sky” (lani) and “heavenly whiteness” (=).
kea (“white”) + lani (“sky”) = “heavenly whiteness”; can also be construed as ke (“the”) + alani (“seaweed; tree of genus Pelea; moss”).
/ke.aˈla.ni/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Hawaiian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kealani?
#8,102 among girls’ names, 2025
Kealani rose from #10,498 in 2015 to #8,102 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.6 to 8.1 per million.
29 babies in 2000, the peak
Kealani peaked in 2000, when 29 girls were given it, #4,234 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 45% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,102 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,776 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,271 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,835 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,641 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,672 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,842 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,962 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,585 | 13.3 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,215 | 14.7 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,498 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,481 | 9.0 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,361 | 11.4 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,637 | 13.6 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,980 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,772 | 10.7 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,687 | 10.9 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,451 | 11.1 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,290 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,050 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,405 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,135 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,747 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,264 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,909 | 13.3 |
| 2000 | 29 | #4,234 | 16.0 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,051 | 9.6 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,532 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,742 | 9.8 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,348 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,120 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,111 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,152 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,333 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,483 | 2.9 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,340 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kealani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kealani has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kealani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kealani, and how old are they?
An estimated 539 Americans named Kealani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 10 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 469 people named Kealani (459 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 470 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
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).
Where are babies named Kealani born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 142 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Hawaii | 37 | not ranked | 17.4× |
Where Kealani is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kealani is most over-represented in California: since 1977 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kealani with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 25,463 babies since 1880, Kealani is the seventh most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 2,963 babies (<1%), the eighth most given that year.
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 Kealani
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 Kealani and names like it
- Compare Kealani and KehlaniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKealani peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kealani since 1910.
- Hawaiian namesWiktionary’s origin for Kealani: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Kealani.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kealani alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.