Kahikilani as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Kahikilani

What is the meaning of the name Kahikilani ?

The baby name Kahikilani is a Female name and is pronounced kah-hee-kee-LAH-nee.

Kahikilani is Hawaiian in Origin.

Kahikilani is a Hawaiian compound name combining Kāhiki - an old term for Tahiti and the broader ancestral lands across the sea, sometimes generalized as "foreign lands" - with lani, meaning "heaven, sky," and by extension "royal" or "exalted." The resulting sense is "heavenly Kahiki," "sky of the ancestral homeland," or "royal one from across the sea," evoking migration, lineage, and sacred elevation.

Found in Hawaiian naming traditions and modern registries, the name gained renewed visibility during the Hawaiian Renaissance of the 1970s. It is used for any gender, in keeping with many traditional Hawaiian personal names. Orthographic variants include Kahiki Lani and Kahiki-lani; with diacritics it appears as Kāhikilani or Kāhiki-lani. Related elements surface in names like Kealani and Kailani, but Kahikilani remains distinctive for its explicit reference to Kāhiki.

⚙ Kahikilani turns up in none of the birth registries or name datasets we cover. That's typically a sign of a rare name, a regional or traditional one, or a modern coinage. Either way, it remains a genuinely rare choice.