Nohealani
Nohealani was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,292 among girls’ names; 276 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nohealani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nohealani mean?
Wiktionary, Hawaiian section
Nohealani is “a female given name from Hawaiian, of 20th century and later usage” Its etymology gives the senses “handsome, pretty” (nohea) and “sky” (lani) and “royal beauty” (=).
nohea (“handsome, pretty”) + lani (“sky”) = “royal beauty”.
/no.he.aˈla.ni/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Hawaiian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nohealani?
#9,292 among girls’ names, 2025
Nohealani rose from #12,699 in 2015 to #9,292 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 4.5 to 6.8 per million.
21 babies in 2022, the peak
Nohealani peaked in 2022, when 21 girls were given it, #5,928 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 52% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,292 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,094 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,541 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,928 | 12.8 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,916 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,835 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,413 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,196 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,505 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,887 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,699 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,179 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,840 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,975 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,906 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,000 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,419 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,474 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,997 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,709 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,429 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,062 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,653 | 2.7 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,338 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,704 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,535 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,251 | 2.8 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,263 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,986 | 4.1 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,821 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,792 | 7.1 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,971 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nohealani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nohealani has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nohealani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nohealani, and how old are they?
An estimated 273 Americans named Nohealani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 201 people named Nohealani (200 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 200 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,998 babies since 1880, Nohealani is the second most given (6.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 120 babies (9.2%), again the second 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 Nohealani
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 Nohealani and names like it
- Compare Nohealani and NoelaniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sNohealani peaked in 2022.
- Hawaii’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nohealani since 1910.
- Hawaiian namesWiktionary’s origin for Nohealani: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Nohealani.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Nohealani alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.