What does Kalai mean in Hawaiian?
Kalai is a Hawaiian girl name that means Sarai. The name comes from Sarai (Sarai). It is pronounced kah-LYE, with 2 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kalai belongs with other Hawaiian names about peace.
How to pronounce Kalai
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kalai are a as in “father”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kalai a boy or girl name?
Kalai is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Kalai is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 285 U.S. babies named Kalai since 1991, but that spelling is mostly an American name of its own, so the count says little about the Hawaiian name. In Hawaiʻi itself, 81 babies born in the state were named Kalai from 2000 to 2021, with a peak of 9 in 2003. 11 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Kalai?
Kalai has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.