What does Kalia mean in Hawaiian?
Kalia is a Hawaiian girl name that means the kalia tree, modern Hawaiian-style name. The name comes from kalia (Elaeocarpus bifidus, a native tree). It is pronounced kah-LEE-ah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kalia belongs with other Hawaiian names about tree and nature.
The words inside Kalia
kalia means a native tree.
How to pronounce Kalia
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kalia are a as in “father”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kalia a boy or girl name?
Kalia is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Kalia is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 5,449 U.S. babies named Kalia since 1963, but that spelling is mostly an American name of its own, so the count says little about the Hawaiian name. In Hawaiʻi itself, 146 babies born in the state were named Kalia from 2000 to 2021, with a peak of 16 in 2011. 65 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Kalia?
Kalia has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.