What does Alaula mean in Hawaiian?
Alaula is a Hawaiian girl name that means light of early dawn, sunset glow. The name comes from alaula (dawn light, afterglow). It is pronounced ah-lah-OO-lah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Alaula belongs with other Hawaiian names about light, sun and sky.
The words inside Alaula
alaula means dawn light, the glow of sunrise and appears in 2 Hawaiian names, among them Kealaula.
How to pronounce Alaula
Say every vowel. The vowels in Alaula are a as in “father”, u as “oo”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Alaula a boy or girl name?
Alaula is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Alaula is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Alaula, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Alaula?
Alaula is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.