What does Aloha mean in Hawaiian?
Aloha is a Hawaiian unisex name that means love, affection, compassion, the greeting of Hawaiʻi. The name comes from aloha (love). It is pronounced ah-LOH-hah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Aloha belongs with other Hawaiian names about love and peace.
The words inside Aloha
aloha means love, affection, compassion and appears in 8 Hawaiian names, among them Kealoha, Leialoha, Kaleialoha, Kameāloha.
How to pronounce Aloha
Say every vowel. The vowels in Aloha are a as in “father”, o as in “go”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Aloha a boy or girl name?
Aloha is listed here as unisex. Of the 857 U.S. babies given it, 100% were girls and 0% boys.
How often Aloha is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 857 U.S. babies named Aloha from 1913 to 2023, all girls. It appears in 65 of those 111 years. Its peak was 1927, with 37. The 2014 to 2023 total of 14 is fewer than in all earlier years combined. In the Hawaiʻi records it never reaches five births of one sex in a year, the level at which a name is listed. It is listed here as unisex, but every recorded U.S. birth has been a girl.
How well recorded is Aloha?
Aloha has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.