Entry № 5138 · Hawaiian origin

Kalani Kalani — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kah-LAH-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hawaiian
Meaning
"The heavens / royal (Hawaiian heritage name)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Hawaiian)

A name that means "the heavens / royal (hawaiian heritage name)".

Kalani David — Native Hawaiian surfer and skateboarder. Kalani Robb — Native Hawaiian professional surfer. Princess Kalani — multiple historical Hawaiian royals.

The heavens / royal.

The name in its native script.

Kalani
Transliteration
Kalani
Pronunciation
/ kɑːˈlɑː.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kalani stands.

Kalani does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Kalanis before her.

Real people
Kalani Brown
American WNBA player.
born 1997
Kalani Hilliker
American Dance Moms dancer.
born 2000
In fiction
Kalani
Hawaiian royal honorific.

Names connected to Kalani.

The number behind Kalani.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kalani reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.