What does Lā mean in Hawaiian?
Lā is a Hawaiian unisex name that means sun, day. The name comes from lā (sun). It is pronounced LAH, with 1 syllable. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Lā belongs with other Hawaiian names about sun and light.
The words inside Lā
lā means sun, day and appears in 6 Hawaiian names, among them Kala, Haleakalā, Kalāhiki, Kalākaua.
How to pronounce Lā
Say every vowel. The vowels in Lā are a as in “father”. A vowel with a line over it (kahakō) is held slightly longer. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Lā a boy or girl name?
Lā is unisex. Hawaiian has no grammatical gender, and most traditional names were given to any child.
How often Lā is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 1,755 U.S. babies named La since 1913, but that spelling is mostly a short American name, so the count says little about the Hawaiian name.
How well recorded is Lā?
Lā is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.