Fun Facts About the Name Daylani
- 422 babies named Daylani: U.S. records list 422 babies given the name Daylani from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Daylani Mean?
Daylani is a modern English-language given name, used chiefly in the United States, and it has no established etymology in the standard dictionaries of personal names. Its ending matches the Hawaiian word lani, meaning "sky" or "heaven," which also appears in Hawaiian names such as Leilani and Kalani and in many later names coined in English. The opening element, Day-, is not a Hawaiian word, so a Hawaiian origin for the name as a whole is not documented and the derivation remains uncertain.
Daylani Name History & Origins
Daylani is a recent formation in English-language naming. It belongs to the broad group of names ending in -lani that became familiar in the United States during the later twentieth century, alongside Kaylani, Jaylani, and similar forms. Names of this shape are commonly built by attaching an initial element to the ending -lani, but no older documented form of Daylani has been identified, and its connection to the Hawaiian element lani is not established. Its opening also resembles the separate name Dayla and the name Dalani; similar sound alone is not evidence that these names share an origin.
How Popular is the Name Daylani?
Daylani has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2025. Its best rank was #2,023 in 2025.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #2,023 | 94 | 0.0058% |
| 2024 | #2,576 | 68 | 0.0042% |
| 2023 | #3,656 | 42 | 0.0026% |
| 2022 | #3,716 | 41 | 0.0025% |
| 2021 | #4,268 | 33 | 0.0020% |
| 2020 | #4,921 | 26 | 0.0016% |
| 2019 | #6,032 | 20 | 0.0012% |
| 2018 | #6,591 | 18 | 0.0011% |
| 2017 | #6,601 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 2016 | #10,270 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2015 | #8,114 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2014 | #10,333 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2013 | #11,244 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2012 | #15,448 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2011 | #15,308 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2010 | #13,842 | 7 | 0.0004% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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