Fun Facts About the Name Lulani
- 110 babies named Lulani: U.S. records list 110 babies given the name Lulani from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Lulani Mean?
Lulani is a rare given name whose meaning is not fully established, though its structure points to Hawaiian. The final element is the Hawaiian word lani, meaning "sky" or "heaven" and, by extension, "royal" or "chiefly." Lani is one of the most common closing elements in Hawaiian personal names, as in Leilani and Kalani. The opening element lu- is the uncertain part. Hawaiian has a syllable lu with several unrelated senses (including "to scatter" and a kind of fishing), and it also has the separate word lulu, meaning "calm" or "peace." Whether Lulani contains one of these, or a shortened form of something longer, is not documented in standard Hawaiian dictionaries, and the name does not appear there as a single word with a fixed definition. The familiar gloss "heavenly" rests on the lani element alone and is an interpretation rather than a recorded translation.
Lulani Name History & Origins
Hawaiian names built on lani have a long history. Because lani carried the sense of "chiefly" or "royal," it was attached to the names of high-ranking people, and it remains a standard component of Hawaiian naming today. Lulani follows that pattern, pairing lani with an initial element that is harder to trace. The name is not among the well-documented Hawaiian names that appear repeatedly in nineteenth-century written sources, and it is uncommon in Hawaii itself. It is also used elsewhere, particularly in the United States, by parents drawn to its Hawaiian sound. Names that merely look similar in other languages are not known to share this derivation, and no reliable non-Hawaiian origin for Lulani has been established.
How Popular is the Name Lulani?
Lulani 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 2008. Its best rank was #10,029 in 2023.
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 | #14,240 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2024 | #10,716 | 9 | 0.0006% |
| 2023 | #10,029 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2021 | #11,744 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2020 | #16,557 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2019 | #14,870 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2018 | #11,080 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2017 | #13,539 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2016 | #17,809 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2015 | #18,072 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2014 | #13,982 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2013 | #18,203 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2011 | #15,997 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2008 | #10,503 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2007 | #10,546 | 11 | 0.0006% |
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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