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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.
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.
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Leilani is a Hawaiian given name meaning "heavenly garland of flowers" or "royal child". The Hawaiian word lei refers to flowers and lani to the sky or heavens, with an association to royalty. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Hawaiian vocabulary often overlaps with other Polynesian languages, such as Tahitian, so it is not always clear which of those languages a term is borrowed from. The Hawaiian orthography is notably different from the English orthography because there is a special letter in the Hawaiian alphabet, the ʻokina .
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.
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”.
Lei Day has been celebrated in Hawaii for almost 100 years, but the importance of leis can be traced back to ancient times. Lei Day has been celebrated in Hawaii for almost 100 years, but the ...