What does Alana mean in Hawaiian?
Alana is a Hawaiian girl name that means awakening, an offering. The name comes from ʻalana (offering, awakening). It is pronounced ah-LAH-nah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Alana belongs with other Hawaiian names about light and gift.
The words inside Alana
ʻalana means offering, awakening.
Alana in Hawaiian
Alana is the Hawaiian form of Alana, the English name respelled with Hawaiian sounds. It is not a translation of what Alana means, but it has been used by Hawaiian families since the 1800s. The page on Alana in Hawaiian traces which letters changed and why.
How to pronounce Alana
Say every vowel. The vowels in Alana are a as in “father”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Alana a boy or girl name?
Alana is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Alana is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 64,076 U.S. babies named Alana since 1930, but that spelling is mostly the Irish and English name, so the count says little about the Hawaiian name. In Hawaiʻi itself, 654 babies born in the state were named Alana from 1975 to 2021, with a peak of 29 in 1985. 158 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Alana?
Alana has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.