How Many People Are Named Leilani?
people named Leilani are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 6,200 people in the US has this name
Based on 56,491 babies named Leilani in Social Security records from 1917 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
3,868 births
Trend
Rising (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Means "heavenly flowers" or "royal child" from Hawaiian lei "flowers, lei, child" and lani "heaven, sky, royal, majesty".
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Leilani in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Leilani alive today is about 13 years old, and 89% are under 30. Half of them were between 3 and 17 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Leilani first appears in the records in 1917 and was given most often in 2022, to 3,868 babies. In 2025, 3,792 babies got the name. Over the last ten years, the number each year has been rising.
Babies given the name each year, 1917 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Leilani never made the top 10 girls' names. Its best rank was #59, in 2022, and it was in the top 100 for 6 years, 2020 to 2025. In 2025 it ranked #60.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #60 |
| Best rank | #59 (2022) |
| Years in the top 100 | 6 (2020 to 2025) |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #65 in the 2020s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Leilani alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Leilani were born in California than in any other state: about 12,874 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Leilani was given 17.5 times as often in Hawaii, 2 times in New Mexico and 2 times in Nevada.
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