Fun Facts About the Name Keilany
- More than 1 thousand babies named Keilany: U.S. records list 1,147 babies given the name Keilany from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Keilany Mean?
Keilany is an English-language respelling of a Hawaiian given name. It matches in sound two Hawaiian names: Kailani, commonly understood as "sea and sky," and Keilani, commonly understood as "the heavenly one" or "the royal one." Both are built on the Hawaiian word lani, which means "sky," "heaven," or "royal."
In Kailani the first element is kai, "sea," joined to lani. In Keilani the first element is the definite article ke ("the"), so the name reads as "the heavenly one." Because Keilany can stand for either parent name, its literal meaning is not fixed; the shared and certain element is lani. The closing -y is not part of Hawaiian spelling, since the Hawaiian alphabet has no y, which shows the name has been adjusted to familiar English written patterns.
Keilany Name History & Origins
Hawaiian personal names formed with lani are traditional in the islands. The word carries the senses "sky," "heaven," and "royalty," and it appears in many Hawaiian names, among them Kailani and Keilani. Those two are the forms generally found in Hawaiian and in reference works describing Hawaiian names.
When such names were written by English speakers, their spellings were often reshaped to English habits: a final -i was sometimes rewritten as -y, and vowel pairs were respelled by sound. That is how the written form Keilany comes about. Since written Hawaiian uses a small alphabet that does not include y, the spelling Keilany belongs to English-language usage rather than to Hawaiian writing, and its background is the background of its parent names plus this spelling change.
How Popular is the Name Keilany?
Keilany 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 #1,198 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 | #1,198 | 191 | 0.0119% |
| 2024 | #1,493 | 145 | 0.0090% |
| 2023 | #1,367 | 165 | 0.0103% |
| 2022 | #1,557 | 137 | 0.0084% |
| 2021 | #2,220 | 84 | 0.0051% |
| 2020 | #2,123 | 86 | 0.0053% |
| 2019 | #2,620 | 67 | 0.0040% |
| 2018 | #3,638 | 42 | 0.0025% |
| 2017 | #6,948 | 17 | 0.0010% |
| 2016 | #4,784 | 29 | 0.0016% |
| 2015 | #8,215 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2014 | #6,588 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 2013 | #9,322 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2012 | #7,631 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 2011 | #7,268 | 17 | 0.0010% |
| 2010 | #8,974 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2009 | #6,690 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 2008 | #6,036 | 23 | 0.0012% |
| 2007 | #10,478 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2006 | #9,600 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2005 | #10,534 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2004 | #15,111 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2003 | #14,802 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2001 | #16,644 | 5 | 0.0003% |
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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