Nalani
Pronounced N AA1 L AA1 N IY0 (ARPABET)
- 3 syllables
- Peaked 2024
- 79 years in use
- 2 spellings
How popular is Nalani?
Nalani is a girls' name, and first appears in 1946. It has been given to 7,486 children — the 1,654th 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 2024, when 604 children were given it.
Two other spellings are counted in that total — Nahlani and Naloni — because they are pronounced identically.
Spelling variants
These spellings sound identical to Nalani and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.
- Nahlani
- Naloni
Characteristics
- Alliterative
- 3 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- N AA1 L AA1 N IY0
- Stress pattern:
- 110
- Syllables:
- 3
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Nalani
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Nalani
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Nalani?
- Nalani ranks 1,654th among girls' names in US records, with 7,486 births since 1946. Over the past decade it accounts for 4,538.
- Is Nalani a unisex name?
- No. Nalani is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Nalani most popular?
- 2024, when 604 children were given the name. It has been in use for 79 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
- How else is Nalani spelled?
- Nahlani, Naloni. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.