Fun Facts About the Name Milliani
- 107 babies named Milliani: U.S. records list 107 babies given the name Milliani from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Milliani Mean?
Milliani is a respelling of the Hawaiian name Mililani, built from two Hawaiian words: mili, "to caress, stroke, handle; to turn over in the mind, ponder," and lani, "sky, heaven," which in personal names also carries the sense "heavenly, royal, majestic." Read literally, the compound means something like "heavenly caress" or "to ponder heavenly things." Hawaiian compounds can be understood in more than one way, so the exact English rendering varies, but the two elements and their meanings are not in doubt.
The doubled l in Milliani is not native to Hawaiian, which does not write doubled consonants; the Hawaiian spelling is Mililani. The two-l form is an English-language respelling of the same name rather than a separate Hawaiian word.
Milliani Name History & Origins
Hawaiian personal names are usually assembled from meaningful words, and lani is one of the most common elements in them, as in Leilani and Kalani. Mililani is formed on that same pattern. The word also names Mililani, a large planned community in central Oʻahu built beginning in the 1960s on former pineapple plantation land, along with the later section known as Mililani Mauka; the place name has made the word familiar well beyond the islands.
Because traditional Hawaiian writing uses single consonants, the spelling Milliani points to English-language use - the sort of respelling that appears when a Hawaiian name is written down outside Hawaiian conventions. The name circulates in Hawaiʻi and among families with Hawaiian ties as a given name, generally with the stress on the third syllable.
How Popular is the Name Milliani?
Milliani 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 2017. Its best rank was #9,168 in 2017.
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 | #11,599 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2024 | #11,769 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2023 | #13,025 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2022 | #14,743 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2020 | #14,544 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2018 | #15,059 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2017 | #9,168 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2016 | #13,890 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2015 | #18,279 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2013 | #11,671 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2012 | #13,067 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2011 | #18,673 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2009 | #12,138 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2008 | #16,814 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2007 | #19,574 | 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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How the Name Milliani Shapes Your Personality and Life?
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