Nylani is a modern American coinage that pairs the fashionable Ny- opening of Nyla and Nylah with the Hawaiian-style ending -lani, which means "heaven" or "sky" in Hawaiian. It has no traditional history and belongs to the family of invented -lani names like Kylani and Nalani that spread in the 2010s. Nylani was almost unknown in 2015 and has climbed to number 2073 in 2025, its best rank so far.