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Leah · English girl’s name

Leah in Hawaiian is Lea

The form Hawaiian speakers have written since the 1800s, when a vowel was added at the end.

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LEH·ah

The gold syllable takes the stress.

What is Leah in Hawaiian?

Leah is Lea in Hawaiian, said LEH-ah.

How Leah became Lea

Hawaiian is written with thirteen letters, so in Leah a vowel was added at the end. A Hawaiian word cannot finish on a consonant, which is where the last vowel comes from.

Lea has a page of its own as a Hawaiian given name, with its popularity and the names it is usually paired with.

Not to be confused with leʻa, a different Hawaiian word meaning “joy, pleasure, delight”.

How to say Lea

Say it LEH-ah, leaning on LEH, sounding every vowel: e as in “bet”, a as in “father”. The pronunciation guide covers the whole system.

Sources the Pukui and Elbert Hawaiian Dictionary, Place Names of Hawaii, Nānā i ke Kumu, wehewehe.org, Wiktionary's Hawaiian given names and U.S. Social Security baby-name records. How this site is compiled · Send a correction

Questions people ask

What is Leah in Hawaiian?

Leah is Lea in Hawaiian, pronounced LEH-ah. It is the form used in Hawaiian-language records since the 1800s.

How do you pronounce Lea?

LEH-ah, with the stress on LEH.

Why does Lea look so different from Leah?

Each sound Hawaiian lacks was swapped for the nearest one it has. In Leah, a vowel was added at the end.

Is Lea a real Hawaiian name?

Yes, as a borrowed name. Hawaiian families have used Lea since the 1800s, but it is Leah respelled, not a name built from Hawaiian words.

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