Laylani
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 177 babies a year in the US.
How Laylani has moved
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| Year | US rank |
|---|---|
| 2022 | #947 |
| 2023 | #923 |
| 2024 | #925 |
| 2025 | #769 |
Laylani by the numbers
Laylani was given to 177 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its best year in America so far is the most recent one on record, which means it was still climbing when the records end.
What we can tell you about Laylani
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Laylani. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Leylaniheavenly flower; a modern respelling of Leilani140 in the US (2017)
- Lailaninight beauty; heavenly night121 in the US (2017)
- Laelaniheavenly child or heavenly lei12 in the US (2017)
- Laylanynight; a form of layla with -ny suffix9 in the US (2017)
- Laylanie21 in the US (2017)
- Layloni21 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Laylani
Names that are said the same way as Laylani, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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