What does Henelē mean in Hawaiian?
Henelē is a Hawaiian boy name that means Hawaiian form of Henry. It is pronounced heh-NEH-leh, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Henelē belongs with other Hawaiian names about biblical.
Henry in Hawaiian
Henry is a Germanic name, Heimirich, built from words for home and ruler, and it came into English with the Normans. It was carried by eight English kings, which kept it common enough that missionaries and settlers brought it to Hawaiʻi in the 1800s.
Hawaiian recorded it in two forms. Henelē keeps the two e sounds of Henry and marks the last one long. Hanale opens the name with a instead. Both change R to L and add a closing vowel, because Hawaiian has no R and no word can end on a consonant.
Henry in Hawaiian
Henelē is the Hawaiian form of Henry, the English name respelled with Hawaiian sounds. It is not a translation of what Henry 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 Henelē
Say every vowel. The vowels in Henelē are e as in “bet”. A vowel with a line over it (kahakō) is held slightly longer. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Henelē a boy or girl name?
Henelē is used mainly as a boy's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Henelē is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Henelē, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Henelē?
Henelē has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.