Definition of "Lani"

Lani¹

proper noun
1. (chiefly US) A female given name from Hawaiian.
  Quotations
  Until then he had not thought of following Lani Aldrich to Honolulu. He had been so sure that she would return to him.
  1940, Hearst's International combined with Cosmopolitan, v.109, July-December 1940, page 106
2. (rare) A male given name.
  Quotations
  Lani pronounced his name Lonny, and someone told me it had been spelled that way at one time. […] Lonny is a boy's name. Who knows what Lani is?
  2002, Carol Plum-Ucci, What Happened to Lani Garver, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page XI

Lani²

noun
plural only
1. An indigenous people of Puncak, Central Papua and Lanny Jaya, Highland Papua.