What does Hale mean in Hawaiian?
Hale is a Hawaiian boy name that means house. The name comes from hale (house). It is pronounced HAH-leh, with 2 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Hale belongs with other Hawaiian names about earth.
The words inside Hale
hale means house, home and appears in 3 Hawaiian names, among them Kahale, Haleakalā.
Harry in Hawaiian
Hale is the Hawaiian form of Harry, the English name respelled with Hawaiian sounds. It is not a translation of what Harry means, but it has been used by Hawaiian families since the 1800s. The page on Harry in Hawaiian traces which letters changed and why.
How to pronounce Hale
Say every vowel. The vowels in Hale are a as in “father”, e as in “bet”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Hale a boy or girl name?
Hale is used mainly as a boy's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Hale is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 1,274 U.S. babies named Hale since 1892, but that spelling is mostly the English surname used as a first name, so the count says little about the Hawaiian name.
How well recorded is Hale?
Hale has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.