What does Laʻi mean in Hawaiian?
Laʻi is a Hawaiian unisex name that means calm, peaceful, serene. The name comes from laʻi (calm). It is pronounced LAH-ee, with 1 syllable. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Laʻi belongs with other Hawaiian names about peace.
The words inside Laʻi
laʻi means calm, stillness, peace.
How to pronounce Laʻi
Say every vowel. The vowels in Laʻi are a as in “father”, i as “ee”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in Laʻi is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Laʻi a boy or girl name?
Laʻi is unisex. Hawaiian has no grammatical gender, and most traditional names were given to any child.
How often Laʻi is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 257 U.S. babies named Lai since 1953, but that spelling is also a Chinese name, so the count says little about the Hawaiian name.
How well recorded is Laʻi?
Laʻi is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.