What does Kalalaina mean in Hawaiian?
Kalalaina is a Hawaiian girl name that means Hawaiian form of Caroline. It is pronounced kah-lah-LYE-nah, with 4 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kalalaina belongs with other Hawaiian names about biblical.
One of three Hawaiian spellings of Caroline
Caroline is a feminine form of Charles, from Carolus, the Latin spelling of the Germanic word for a free man. It became fashionable through Caroline of Ansbach, queen of Britain in the 1700s, and reached Hawaiʻi with English-speaking families in the 1800s.
Hawaiian has no R and no C, so the name was rebuilt with L and K and given a vowel ending. Three spellings are recorded. Kalalaina turns the o of Caroline into a, Kalolaina keeps it, and Kealalaina opens with ke instead of ka. All three are girls' names and all three are rare today.
Caroline in Hawaiian
Kalalaina is the Hawaiian form of Caroline, the English name respelled with Hawaiian sounds. It is not a translation of what Caroline means, but it has been used by Hawaiian families since the 1800s. See your name in Hawaiian for the full list of recorded forms.
How to pronounce Kalalaina
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kalalaina are a as in “father”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kalalaina a boy or girl name?
Kalalaina is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Kalalaina is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Kalalaina, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Kalalaina?
Kalalaina has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.