What does Kaleialoha mean in Hawaiian?
Kaleialoha is a Hawaiian girl name that means the beloved lei, the cherished child. The name comes from ka (the) + lei (wreath, child) + aloha (love). It is pronounced kah-lay-ah-LOH-hah, with 5 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kaleialoha belongs with other Hawaiian names about flower and love.
Reading Kaleialoha
Kaleialoha strings three words together: ka (the), lei and aloha. In Hawaiian names lei is rarely just a garland of flowers. It is the standard figure for a cherished child, the one worn close, so Kaleialoha reads as the beloved lei and, beneath that, the beloved child.
The same pair of words, lei and aloha, gives Leialoha without the article and Kuʻuleialoha with kuʻu (my) in front, so the three names are one idea spoken three ways: a beloved lei, the beloved lei, my beloved lei.
The words inside Kaleialoha
lei means garland, wreath and appears in 18 Hawaiian names, among them Leilani, Kalei, Leialoha, Hanalei.
aloha means love, affection, compassion and appears in 8 Hawaiian names, among them Kealoha, Leialoha, Aloha, Kameāloha.
How to pronounce Kaleialoha
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kaleialoha are a as in “father”, e as in “bet”, i as “ee”, o as in “go”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kaleialoha a boy or girl name?
Kaleialoha is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Kaleialoha is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Kaleialoha, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Kaleialoha?
Kaleialoha has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.