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Considering a Hawaiian baby name? Here are the top 55 Hawaiian baby names, including Kai and Koa for baby boys, and Leilani and Kaia for baby girls.
A minority of parents have started giving nothing but Hawaiian names to their children. In births registered on Oʻahu 2001–2002, about 25% of girls and 15% of boys received at least one Hawaiian name. Names with negative meaning have disappeared in this sample, and the unisex quality is waning.
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Alana, Alanna, Alannah or Ilana is a female given name. It can be derived either from the Old High German word for "precious" or from the Irish language term "a leanbh" for "my child". [1] [2] Alana is also a unisex given name in the Hawaiian community meaning fair, beautiful, offering, “harmony”.
It has been among the 500 most popular names for newborn American girls since 2001 and was the 59th most popular name for girls in the United States in 2022. Phonetic, created spelling variants of the name are also in regular use. [3] [4] Leilani was among the five most popular names for Black newborn girls in the American state of Virginia in ...
Kiana or Kianna is a given name with origins in multiple languages and cultures. It is sometimes regarded as a modern English name formed from the elements ki and ana or anna . [ 1 ] It is also a Hawaiian form of the name Diana [ 2 ] or a variant spelling of Qiana , which was the name of a type of fabric that was in use as a given name.
The name is rising in popularity in the United States, where it has ranked among the top 1,000 names for newborn girls since 2013 and among the top 300 names since 2020. [2] [3] Modern Anglicized, phonetic spelling variants such as Kaylani and Kehlani are also well-used in the United States.
“Lana” is a name that has been used since the start of the 20th century. Other possible origins include the Irish Gaelic ailin, meaning 'little rock'. The name's use in Irish probably derives from the phrase a leanbh, which was used to call a child. [citation needed] In Hawaiian it means 'calm as still waters' or 'afloat'.