What does Ailana mean in Hawaiian?
Ailana is a Hawaiian girl name that means island (from the English loanword). The name comes from ʻailana (island). It is pronounced eye-LAH-nah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Ailana belongs with other Hawaiian names about ocean and earth.
The words inside Ailana
ʻailana means island.
How to pronounce Ailana
Say every vowel. The vowels in Ailana are a as in “father”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Ailana a boy or girl name?
Ailana is listed here as a girl's name. Of the 394 U.S. babies given it, 100% were girls and 0% boys.
How often Ailana is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 394 U.S. babies named Ailana from 2002 to 2023, all girls. It appears in 20 of those 22 years. Its peak came in 2023, with 118, and 305 were born from 2014 to 2023. In the Hawaiʻi records it never reaches five births of one sex in a year, the level at which a name is listed.
How well recorded is Ailana?
Ailana is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.