Leilani

Leilani: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“heavenly garland of flowers”
Origin
Hawaiian
Say it
lay-LAH-nee · 3 syllables
Used for
Girls

Hawaiian name from lei 'garland, wreath, flower necklace' and lani 'heaven, sky, royal, majestic'. It is one of the best-known Hawaiian given names.

How popular is Leilani?

20241,008 per million US babies
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Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Leilani in 20243,354

2024 rank#66 girls

Peak year2022

Total US babies since 188052,665

Leilani is rising: use over the last five years is 2.7× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Leilani

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

Leilani questions

What does the name Leilani mean?

Leilani means "heavenly garland of flowers". It comes from Hawaiian. Hawaiian name from lei 'garland, wreath, flower necklace' and lani 'heaven, sky, royal, majestic'. It is one of the best-known Hawaiian given names.

Is Leilani a boy or girl name?

Leilani is mainly a girl's name in US records (100% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Leilani?

3,354 US babies were named Leilani in 2024. Its peak year was 2022.

How do you pronounce Leilani?

Leilani is usually pronounced lay-LAH-nee.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.