What does Lana mean in Hawaiian?
Lana is a Hawaiian girl name that means calm as still water, afloat. The name comes from lana (to float, be calm). It is pronounced LAH-nah, with 2 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Lana belongs with other Hawaiian names about water and peace.
The words inside Lana
lana means floating, buoyant, calm and appears in 5 Hawaiian names, among them ʻIolana, Hoʻolana, Manaʻolana, Wailana.
How to pronounce Lana
Say every vowel. The vowels in Lana are a as in “father”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Lana a boy or girl name?
Lana is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Lana is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 55,827 U.S. babies named Lana since 1885, but that spelling is mostly the Slavic and English name, so the count says little about the Hawaiian name. In Hawaiʻi itself, 222 babies born in the state were named Lana from 1941 to 2021, with a peak of 10 in 1941. 39 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Lana?
Lana is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.