Naylani is a modern American coinage that pairs the Nay- opening of names like Nayeli with the Hawaiian ending -lani, which means "heaven" or "sky" and is familiar from Leilani and Kehlani. It has no traditional history of its own, but it fits the melodic, island-inspired names that spread in the 2010s. Naylani had fewer than five births in 2000, climbed from number 5787 in 2015 to number 1837 in 2024 and jumped into the top 1000 for the first time in 2025 at number 897.