What does ʻElena mean in Hawaiian?
ʻElena is a Hawaiian girl name that means Hawaiian form of Ellen. It is pronounced eh-LEH-nah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
ʻElena belongs with other Hawaiian names about biblical.
Ellen in Hawaiian
ʻElena is the Hawaiian form of Ellen, the English name respelled with Hawaiian sounds. It is not a translation of what Ellen means, but it has been used by Hawaiian families since the 1800s. The page on Ellen in Hawaiian traces which letters changed and why.
How to pronounce ʻElena
Say every vowel. The vowels in ʻElena are e as in “bet”, a as in “father”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in ʻElena is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is ʻElena a boy or girl name?
ʻElena is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often ʻElena is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 98,557 U.S. babies named Elena since 1880, but that spelling is mostly the Spanish, Italian and Greek name, so the count says little about the Hawaiian name. In Hawaiʻi itself, 380 babies born in the state were named ʻElena from 1943 to 2021, with a peak of 23 in 2019. 137 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is ʻElena?
ʻElena has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.