Kylani is a modern American coinage that blends the popular prefix Ky- with the Hawaiian-sounding ending of names like Kehlani and Leilani; it has no traditional meaning, though parents often read it as "sky and heaven" after its Hawaiian models. It belongs to the wave of melodic -lani names that took off in the 2010s. Kylani was almost unknown in 2015, when it ranked around number 8710, broke into the top 2000 in 2024 with a peak of number 1863 and sits at number 2031 in 2025.