What does Hāliʻa mean in Hawaiian?
Hāliʻa is a Hawaiian girl name that means fond remembrance of a loved one. The name comes from hāliʻa (sudden remembrance). It is pronounced hah-LEE-ah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Hāliʻa belongs with other Hawaiian names about love.
The words inside Hāliʻa
hāliʻa means sudden remembrance.
How to pronounce Hāliʻa
Say every vowel. The vowels in Hāliʻa are a as in “father”, i as “ee”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in Hāliʻa is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. A vowel with a line over it (kahakō) is held slightly longer. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Hāliʻa a boy or girl name?
Hāliʻa is listed here as a girl's name. Of the 968 U.S. babies given it, 100% were girls and 0% boys.
How often Hāliʻa is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 968 U.S. babies named Hāliʻa from 1997 to 2023, all girls, counted as Halia because the records drop the ʻokina and kahakō. It appears every year from 1997 on. Its peak came in 2023, with 64, and 449 were born from 2014 to 2023. In Hawaiʻi itself, 128 babies born in the state were named Hāliʻa from 1997 to 2021, with a peak of 16 in 2020. 74 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Hāliʻa?
Hāliʻa is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.