What does Kalaʻe mean in Hawaiian?
Kalaʻe is a Hawaiian girl name that means clear, bright, serene. The name comes from ka (the) + laʻe (clear, calm). It is pronounced kah-LAH-eh, with 2 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kalaʻe belongs with other Hawaiian names about light and peace.
The words inside Kalaʻe
laʻe means clear, calm, serene.
How to pronounce Kalaʻe
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kalaʻe are a as in “father”, e as in “bet”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in Kalaʻe is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kalaʻe a boy or girl name?
Kalaʻe is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Kalaʻe is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 17 U.S. babies named Kalaʻe from 1980 to 2023 (12 girls, 5 boys), counted as Kalae because the records drop the ʻokina and kahakō. It appears in 3 of those 44 years. No year since 2010 has five or more babies of either sex given it. 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 Kalaʻe?
Kalaʻe is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.