What does ʻIolana mean in Hawaiian?
ʻIolana is a Hawaiian girl name that means to soar like a hawk. The name comes from ʻio (hawk) + lana (to float, soar). It is pronounced ee-oh-LAH-nah, with 4 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
ʻIolana belongs with other Hawaiian names about bird, sky and freedom.
The words inside ʻIolana
ʻio means Hawaiian hawk and appears in 2 Hawaiian names, among them ʻIolani.
lana means floating, buoyant, calm and appears in 5 Hawaiian names, among them Lana, Hoʻolana, Manaʻolana, Wailana.
How to pronounce ʻIolana
Say every vowel. The vowels in ʻIolana are i as “ee”, o as in “go”, a as in “father”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in ʻIolana is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is ʻIolana a boy or girl name?
ʻIolana is listed here as a girl's name. Of the 90 U.S. babies given it, 100% were girls and 0% boys.
How often ʻIolana is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 90 U.S. babies named ʻIolana from 2003 to 2023, all girls, counted as Iolana because the records drop the ʻokina and kahakō. It appears in 13 of those 21 years. Its peak was 2020, with 17. The 2014 to 2023 total of 49 is more than in all earlier years combined. In the Hawaiʻi records it never reaches five births of one sex in a year, the level at which a name is listed.
How well recorded is ʻIolana?
ʻIolana is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.