Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls
Leilani is a Hawaiian given name meaning "heavenly garland of flowers" or "royal child". The Hawaiian word lei refers to flowers and lani to the sky or heavens, with an association to royalty.
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In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Leilani yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
3,354 births in 2024, up 118% from ten years earlier — though the name's actual best year, 3,866 births, was two years prior, in 2022, alongside its best-ever rank, #59.
Nothing shows up before 1917 in this name's records, well over three decades after the dataset begins.
No famous bearers turn up anywhere in the enrichment data for Leilani, and its enrichment origin field is blank too — a name with almost no documented cultural trail despite its steady climb.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1917 | 5 | #4,967 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,545 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,257 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,852 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,709 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,535 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,249 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,282 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,841 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,209 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,259 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,764 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,602 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,656 |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,052 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,264 |
| 1937 | 81 | #758 |
| 1938 | 101 | #685 |
| 1939 | 98 | #690 |
| 1940 | 85 | #756 |
| 1941 | 88 | #770 |
| 1942 | 99 | #759 |
| 1943 | 97 | #790 |
| 1944 | 80 | #852 |
| 1945 | 72 | #893 |
| 1946 | 74 | #973 |
| 1947 | 75 | #1,028 |
| 1948 | 74 | #1,022 |
| 1949 | 66 | #1,117 |
| 1950 | 74 | #1,075 |
| 1951 | 61 | #1,199 |
| 1952 | 59 | #1,243 |
| 1953 | 56 | #1,304 |
| 1954 | 52 | #1,400 |
| 1955 | 59 | #1,314 |
| 1956 | 87 | #1,112 |
| 1957 | 86 | #1,140 |
| 1958 | 99 | #1,055 |
| 1959 | 81 | #1,187 |
| 1960 | 91 | #1,142 |
| 1961 | 99 | #1,103 |
| 1962 | 117 | #994 |
| 1963 | 98 | #1,101 |
| 1964 | 83 | #1,216 |
| 1965 | 92 | #1,093 |
| 1966 | 86 | #1,148 |
| 1967 | 107 | #986 |
| 1968 | 115 | #969 |
| 1969 | 121 | #978 |
| 1970 | 125 | #1,001 |
| 1971 | 120 | #1,028 |
| 1972 | 95 | #1,151 |
| 1973 | 122 | #976 |
| 1974 | 128 | #965 |
| 1975 | 110 | #1,073 |
| 1976 | 139 | #930 |
| 1977 | 146 | #949 |
| 1978 | 177 | #839 |
| 1979 | 153 | #956 |
| 1980 | 223 | #746 |
| 1981 | 203 | #797 |
| 1982 | 173 | #889 |
| 1983 | 169 | #895 |
| 1984 | 141 | #1,015 |
| 1985 | 154 | #992 |
| 1986 | 159 | #989 |
| 1987 | 140 | #1,090 |
| 1988 | 144 | #1,094 |
| 1989 | 148 | #1,122 |
| 1990 | 157 | #1,115 |
| 1991 | 155 | #1,146 |
| 1992 | 154 | #1,147 |
| 1993 | 186 | #997 |
| 1994 | 194 | #959 |
| 1995 | 165 | #1,083 |
| 1996 | 209 | #932 |
| 1997 | 275 | #765 |
| 1998 | 296 | #738 |
| 1999 | 375 | #630 |
| 2000 | 505 | #523 |
| 2001 | 593 | #468 |
| 2002 | 660 | #440 |
| 2003 | 883 | #353 |
| 2004 | 937 | #341 |
| 2005 | 954 | #335 |
| 2006 | 1,067 | #310 |
| 2007 | 1,188 | #286 |
| 2008 | 1,230 | #276 |
| 2009 | 1,243 | #265 |
| 2010 | 1,226 | #268 |
| 2011 | 1,304 | #244 |
| 2012 | 1,414 | #224 |
| 2013 | 1,391 | #231 |
| 2014 | 1,539 | #218 |
| 2015 | 1,806 | #179 |
| 2016 | 1,968 | #159 |
| 2017 | 2,283 | #129 |
| 2018 | 2,518 | #120 |
| 2019 | 2,702 | #107 |
| 2020 | 2,889 | #92 |
| 2021 | 3,485 | #67 |
| 2022 | 3,866 | #59 |
| 2023 | 3,555 | #61 |
| 2024 | 3,354 | #66 |
