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Kilia

Pronounced kee-LEE-ah

“Hawaiian form of Celia”

Celia in HawaiianMore girl names

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kee·LEE·ah

3 syllables. The gold syllable takes the stress.

What does Kilia mean in Hawaiian?

Kilia is a Hawaiian girl name that means Hawaiian form of Celia. It is pronounced kee-LEE-ah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.

Kilia belongs with other Hawaiian names about biblical.

Celia in Hawaiian

Kilia is the Hawaiian form of Celia, the English name respelled with Hawaiian sounds. It is not a translation of what Celia means, but it has been used by Hawaiian families since the 1800s. The page on Celia in Hawaiian traces which letters changed and why.

How to pronounce Kilia

Say every vowel. The vowels in Kilia are i as “ee”, a as in “father”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.

Is Kilia a boy or girl name?

Kilia is listed here as a girl's name. Of the 34 U.S. babies given it, 100% were girls and 0% boys.

How often Kilia is given in the U.S.

Social Security records show 34 U.S. babies named Kilia from 2002 to 2023, all girls. It appears in 6 of those 22 years. No year since 2009 has five or more babies of either sex given it. In the Hawaiʻi records it never reaches five births of one sex in a year, the level at which a name is listed.

How well recorded is Kilia?

Kilia has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce Kilia?

kee-LEE-ah, in 3 syllables, with the stress on LEE.

Is Kilia a girl's or a boy's name?

Kilia is used mainly as a girl name, though Hawaiian names carry no grammatical gender and it can be given to any child.

What does Kilia mean in Hawaiian?

Hawaiian form of Celia.

Sources the Pukui and Elbert Hawaiian Dictionary, Place Names of Hawaii, Nānā i ke Kumu, wehewehe.org, Wiktionary's Hawaiian given names and U.S. Social Security baby-name records. How this site is compiled · Send a correction

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