What does Akela mean in Hawaiian?
Akela is a Hawaiian girl name that means noble, Hawaiian form of Adele. It is pronounced ah-KEH-lah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Akela belongs with other Hawaiian names about royalty.
Adele in Hawaiian
Akela is the Hawaiian form of Adele, the English name respelled with Hawaiian sounds. It is not a translation of what Adele means, but it has been used by Hawaiian families since the 1800s. The page on Adele in Hawaiian traces which letters changed and why.
How to pronounce Akela
Say every vowel. The vowels in Akela are a as in “father”, e as in “bet”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Akela a boy or girl name?
Akela is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Akela is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 644 U.S. babies named Akela since 1975, but that spelling is mostly an American name of its own, so the count says little about the Hawaiian name.
How well recorded is Akela?
Akela has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.