Dolkii (pronounced dole-key) is derived from the words dholki and dholak. In high school, Yasmin attended her first wedding celebration in Lahore, Pakistan for their cousin and one of the many days of celebration is called a Dholki. Family and friends gather for a night of celebration, including performances and dancing to the beat of a dholki, which is a hand drum used in many South Asian celebrations. Yasmin loved the word and everything it represented: love, happiness, celebration. She returned home to Hawai‘i where she and Shaiyanne would fantasize about having their own clothing line. They rearranged the spelling just a little, and from there the name Dolkii was born. 

In the early 2000s, nothing much came from Dolkii besides a few cool stickers Shaiyanne designed in the Aiea High School Graphics Club lab. But in 2010, when Shaiyanne attended the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, she was tasked with creating her own line from start to finish for her final graduation project and presenting it to industry professionals. The only name that made sense to label her project was Dolkii. And when she decided in 2014 to launch a blog (which eventually evolved into the Dolkii shop today), there was only one name meant for it: Dolkii.