girls:
286 births since 1994
#5430 (5th percentile)
boys:
6 births since 1998
#4580 (0th percentile)
overall:
292 births since 1994
#7447 (4th percentile)
The name Kamalani is the #7,447 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 292 recorded births since 1994. This represents the 3.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,430 (5.0% percentile) for all time with 286 births since 1994. For boys, it ranks #4,580 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 1998.
Kamalani first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1994 (1994 for girls and 1998 for boys). Birth data for Kamalani is available in 27 out of the 30 years between 1994 and 2023 (27 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Kamalani has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kamalani reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #846) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kamalani ranks #940 for girls (0.7% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 72.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kamalani reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #794) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1998.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kamalani".
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Our model has identified 12 different pronunciations for the name Kamalani. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 23.1% confident that Kamalani is pronounced as kah-muh-LAH-nee, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kuh-muh-LAH-nee, at 17.9% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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