Entry № 5824 · Hawaiian origin

Leilani Leilani — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ lay-LAH-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hawaiian
Meaning
"Heavenly flowers, royal child"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Hawaiian)

A name that means "heavenly flowers, royal child".

Leilani is a Hawaiian name combining lei (a garland of flowers, also "royal child") and lani (heaven, sky, sacred) — meaning "heavenly garland" or "royal child of heaven."

Leilani entered the U.S. top 1000 in 1955 and has been continuously used. Today it sits in the U.S. top 250 and is rising.

Heavenly flowers. The Hawaiian royal child.

The name in its native script.

Leilani
Transliteration
Leilani
Pronunciation
/ leɪˈlɑː.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Leilani stands.

Leilani does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Leilanis before her.

Real people
Leilani Münter
American race car driver.
born 1974
In fiction
Leilani
Heroine of Hawaiian songs.

Names connected to Leilani.

The number behind Leilani.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Leilani reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.