Kylani

Meaning of Kylani

Kylani drifts onto the tongue like a trade-wind breeze—kee-LAH-nee in its native Hawaiian surf, ky-LAH-nee when it hops onto the mainland—yet either way she carries the same sun-kissed story: “lani,” meaning “heavenly sky,” wrapped in the playful “ky,” a modern twist on the classic Kailani. Listeners can almost hear ukuleles mingling with mariachi trumpets, because this is a name that loves to salsa across cultures—tropical at its core, but perfectly at home in any barrio or beach town from Honolulu to Havana. In the baby-name charts she’s the quiet climber, gliding from just five little Kylanis in 2003 to more than a hundred newborn estrellas in 2024, proof that parents are steadily falling for her hibiscus-bright charm. Sailors used to navigate by the stars; today, new moms and dads steer toward Kylani when they want a daughter whose very name whispers “sky’s the limit.”