What does ʻEmelia mean in Hawaiian?
ʻEmelia is a Hawaiian girl name that means Hawaiian form of Emilia. It is pronounced eh-meh-LEE-ah, with 4 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
ʻEmelia belongs with other Hawaiian names about biblical.
Emilia in Hawaiian
Emilia goes back to Aemilia, the feminine of Aemilius, an old Roman family name. It passed into Italian and Spanish as Emilia and into English as Emily, which became widespread in the 1700s and 1800s.
Hawaiian recorded two spellings. ʻEmelia keeps the e of the original. ʻEmalia changes the middle vowel to a. Both open with an ʻokina, the catch in the voice that Hawaiian writes before many borrowed names beginning with a vowel.
Emilia in Hawaiian
ʻEmelia is the Hawaiian form of Emilia, the English name respelled with Hawaiian sounds. It is not a translation of what Emilia means, but it has been used by Hawaiian families since the 1800s. See your name in Hawaiian for the full list of recorded forms.
How to pronounce ʻEmelia
Say every vowel. The vowels in ʻEmelia are e as in “bet”, i as “ee”, a as in “father”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in ʻEmelia is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is ʻEmelia a boy or girl name?
ʻEmelia is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often ʻEmelia is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 12,989 U.S. babies named Emelia since 1880, but that spelling is mostly a spelling of Amelia, so the count says little about the Hawaiian name. In Hawaiʻi itself, 10 babies born in the state were named ʻEmelia from 2016 to 2021, with a peak of 5 in 2016. 10 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is ʻEmelia?
ʻEmelia has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.