What does Kaleʻa mean in Hawaiian?
Kaleʻa is a Hawaiian girl name that means joy, happiness, bright. The name comes from ka (the) + leʻa (joy, pleasure). It is pronounced kah-LEH-ah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kaleʻa belongs with other Hawaiian names about joy.
The words inside Kaleʻa
leʻa means joy, pleasure, delight and appears in 2 Hawaiian names, among them Hōkūleʻa.
How to pronounce Kaleʻa
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kaleʻa are a as in “father”, e as in “bet”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in Kaleʻa is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kaleʻa a boy or girl name?
Kaleʻa is listed here as a girl's name. Of the 4,286 U.S. babies given it, 100% were girls and 0% boys.
How often Kaleʻa is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 4,286 U.S. babies named Kaleʻa from 1977 to 2023, all girls, counted as Kalea because the records drop the ʻokina and kahakō. It appears every year from 1977 on. Its peak was 2004, with 187. The 2014 to 2023 total of 1,524 is fewer than in all earlier years combined. In Hawaiʻi itself, 174 babies born in the state were named Kaleʻa from 2003 to 2021, with a peak of 19 in 2016. 126 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Kaleʻa?
Kaleʻa is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.