Given name & surname
Kamalani
“child”·“sky”
Kamalani is a feminine given name from Hawaiian. It is used in Hawaiian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Kamalani is built from elements meaning “child” and “sky”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1994. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kamalani through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 309
- 6 boys · 303 girls
- Most popular year
- 2004
- 19 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #10,489 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −3%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 10,489 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 19 in 2004. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 269 as a first name in 2020; 103 as a surname in 2010.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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