Girl name#523 of girl names
Leilani
Pronounced L AH0 L AA1 N IY0 (ARPABET)
- 3 syllables
- Peaked 2022
- 108 years in use
How popular is Leilani?
Leilani is a girls' name, and first appears in 1917. It has been given to 52,889 children — the 523rd most common girls' name on record.
It is climbing hard: roughly twice as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 2022, when 3,873 children were given it.
Characteristics
- Alliterative
- 3 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- L AH0 L AA1 N IY0
- Stress pattern:
- 010
- Syllables:
- 3
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Leilani
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Leilani
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Leilani?
- Leilani ranks 523rd among girls' names in US records, with 52,889 births since 1917. Over the past decade it accounts for 28,467.
- Is Leilani a unisex name?
- No. Leilani is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Leilani most popular?
- 2022, when 3,873 children were given the name. It has been in use for 108 years and is still recorded as of 2024.