Home / Girl Names / P / Pualani
Entry № 0660 · Hawaiian origin

Pualani Pualani — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ poo-ah-LAH-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hawaiian
Meaning
"Heavenly flower"
Syllables
4
Rank · US 2025
№ 0
First recorded
Modern (Hawaiian)
The meaning

A name that means "heavenly flower".

Pualani combines the Hawaiian pua (flower) and lani (heaven) — meaning "heavenly flower" or "flower of heaven."

Pualani Mossman, the early-20th-century Hawaiian hula icon, brought the name visibility.

Heavenly flower. The Hawaiian compound.
Popularity

Where Pualani stands.

Current rank · 2025
№ 0 in the U.S.
All-time peak
№ 0 in 0
Babies named Pualani · last year
87 in the U.S.
First entered SSA top-1000
0
Rank, 1995–2025 Lower = more popular
№25 №75 №150 №250 1995 2005 2015 2020 2025 PEAK · — NOW · —
Namesakes

Pualanis before her.

Real people
Pualani Mossman
Hawaiian hula icon.
1916 – 2008
In fiction
Pualani
Common in Hawaiian songs.
Related

Names connected to Pualani.

Variants & spellings
Similar meaning
Sister suggestions
Sounds alike
Numerology

The number behind Pualani.

4

The Builder

Pualani reduces to four — the number of heavenly bloom.

Parents on Pualani

Why families chose this name.

"Heavenly flower. Seven letters of Hawaiian. Pualani."
Hannah · Mother of one · Hilo