Given name
Kawailani
“the”·“water”·“sky”
Kawailani is a feminine given name from Hawaiian. It is used in Hawaiian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Kawailani is built from elements meaning “the” and “water” and “sky”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2002. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kawailani through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 42
- 0 boys · 42 girls
- Most popular year
- 2022
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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