What does Kalena mean in Hawaiian?
Kalena is a Hawaiian girl name that means pure, Hawaiian form of Karen. The name comes from borrowed from Karen. It is pronounced kah-LEH-nah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kalena belongs with other Hawaiian names about peace.
Karen in Hawaiian
Kalena is the Hawaiian form of Karen, the English name respelled with Hawaiian sounds. It is not a translation of what Karen means, but it has been used by Hawaiian families since the 1800s. The page on Karen in Hawaiian traces which letters changed and why.
How to pronounce Kalena
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kalena are a as in “father”, e as in “bet”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kalena a boy or girl name?
Kalena is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Kalena is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 2,596 U.S. babies named Kalena since 1962, but that spelling is shared with the Slavic Kalina and other names, so the count says little about the Hawaiian name. In Hawaiʻi itself, 289 babies born in the state were named Kalena from 1984 to 2021, with a peak of 18 in 2008. 96 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Kalena?
Kalena has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.