# Leilani (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/leilani/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Hawaiian |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 56,491 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 25 / 56,466 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 995, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Hawaiian Leilani.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,304 | 244 |
| 2012 | 1,415 | 224 |
| 2013 | 1,391 | 231 |
| 2014 | 1,540 | 218 |
| 2015 | 1,807 | 178 |
| 2016 | 1,971 | 159 |
| 2017 | 2,284 | 129 |
| 2018 | 2,519 | 120 |
| 2019 | 2,703 | 107 |
| 2020 | 2,892 | 92 |
| 2021 | 3,485 | 68 |
| 2022 | 3,868 | 59 |
| 2023 | 3,562 | 61 |
| 2024 | 3,365 | 66 |
| 2025 | 3,792 | 60 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 7 | 9,247 |
| 2004 | 7 | 9,544 |
| 2005 | 5 | 12,571 |
| 2019 | 6 | 11,594 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 28 | 1,168 |
| 2012 | 36 | 998 |
| 2013 | 25 | 1,324 |
| 2014 | 31 | 1,120 |
| 2015 | 34 | 1,033 |
| 2016 | 46 | 822 |
| 2017 | 36 | 1,002 |
| 2018 | 37 | 972 |
| 2019 | 34 | 1,017 |
| 2020 | 58 | 643 |
| 2021 | 57 | 674 |
| 2022 | 67 | 576 |
| 2023 | 57 | 637 |
| 2024 | 42 | 869 |
| 2025 | 53 | 696 |

## People named Leilani

- Leilani Leeane, American pornographic actress & model
- Leilani Sarelle, actress from the United States
- Leilani Mitchell, Australian basketball player (born 1985)
- Leilani Farha, Canadian lawyer
- Dianna Cowern, American science educator (born 1989)
- Lani Hall, American musician

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.