What does Haleakalā mean in Hawaiian?
Haleakalā is a Hawaiian unisex name that means house of the sun, the great mountain of Maui. The name comes from hale (house) + a (of) + ka (the) + lā (sun). It is pronounced hah-leh-ah-kah-LAH, with 5 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Haleakalā belongs with other Hawaiian names about sun and mountain.
The words inside Haleakalā
hale means house, home and appears in 3 Hawaiian names, among them Hale, Kahale.
lā means sun, day and appears in 6 Hawaiian names, among them Kala, Kalāhiki, Kalākaua, Lā.
Haleakalā as a place name
Haleakalā is also a volcano on Maui, where the name is read as house of the sun. Where the demigod Māui snared the sun to slow its passage. The summit is 10,023 feet. Place names and given names draw on the same words, so the meanings usually overlap but are not always identical. The page on what Haleakalā means has the full story, and Hawaiian volcano names covers the rest.
How to pronounce Haleakalā
Say every vowel. The vowels in Haleakalā are a as in “father”, e as in “bet”. A vowel with a line over it (kahakō) is held slightly longer. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Haleakalā a boy or girl name?
Haleakalā is unisex. Hawaiian has no grammatical gender, and most traditional names were given to any child.
How often Haleakalā is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Haleakalā, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Haleakalā?
Haleakalā is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.