What does Helena mean in Hawaiian?
Helena is a Hawaiian girl name that means Hawaiian form of Helen. It is pronounced heh-LEH-nah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Helena belongs with other Hawaiian names about biblical.
Helen in Hawaiian
Helena is the Hawaiian form of Helen, the English name respelled with Hawaiian sounds. It is not a translation of what Helen means, but it has been used by Hawaiian families since the 1800s. The page on Helen in Hawaiian traces which letters changed and why.
How to pronounce Helena
Say every vowel. The vowels in Helena are e as in “bet”, a as in “father”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Helena a boy or girl name?
Helena is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Helena is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 38,763 U.S. babies named Helena since 1880, but that spelling is mostly the European name, so the count says little about the Hawaiian name. In Hawaiʻi itself, 48 babies born in the state were named Helena from 1950 to 2021, with a peak of 7 in 2010. 11 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Helena?
Helena has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.