What does Hoʻolana mean in Hawaiian?
Hoʻolana is a Hawaiian unisex name that means to float, to encourage, cheer up. The name comes from hoʻo (to cause) + lana (buoyant). It is pronounced hoh-oh-LAH-nah, with 4 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Hoʻolana belongs with other Hawaiian names about hope and water.
The words inside Hoʻolana
lana means floating, buoyant, calm and appears in 5 Hawaiian names, among them ʻIolana, Lana, Manaʻolana, Wailana.
How to pronounce Hoʻolana
Say every vowel. The vowels in Hoʻolana are o as in “go”, a as in “father”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in Hoʻolana is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Hoʻolana a boy or girl name?
Hoʻolana is unisex. Hawaiian has no grammatical gender, and most traditional names were given to any child.
How often Hoʻolana is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Hoʻolana, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Hoʻolana?
Hoʻolana is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.