What does Hualālai mean in Hawaiian?
Hualālai is a Hawaiian boy name that means a volcano of Hawaiʻi Island (meaning uncertain). The name comes from place name. It is pronounced hoo-ah-LAH-lye, with 4 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Hualālai belongs with other Hawaiian names about mountain and fire.
Hualālai as a place name
Hualālai is also a volcano on Hawaiʻi, where the name is read as meaning uncertain, possibly from hua (fruit) and lālai (calm). The volcano above Kailua-Kona. It last erupted in 1801. Place names and given names draw on the same words, so the meanings usually overlap but are not always identical. The page on what Hualālai means has the full story, and Hawaiian volcano names covers the rest.
How to pronounce Hualālai
Say every vowel. The vowels in Hualālai are u as “oo”, a as in “father”, i as “ee”. A vowel with a line over it (kahakō) is held slightly longer. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Hualālai a boy or girl name?
Hualālai is used mainly as a boy's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Hualālai is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Hualālai, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Hualālai?
Hualālai is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.