What does Lea mean in Hawaiian?
Lea is a Hawaiian girl name that means goddess of canoe builders, Hawaiian form of Leah. The name comes from Lea, wife of the forest god Kū. It is pronounced LEH-ah, with 2 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Lea belongs with other Hawaiian names about mythology and biblical.
Leah in Hawaiian
Lea is the Hawaiian form of Leah, the English name respelled with Hawaiian sounds. It is not a translation of what Leah means, but it has been used by Hawaiian families since the 1800s. The page on Leah in Hawaiian traces which letters changed and why.
How to pronounce Lea
Say every vowel. The vowels in Lea are e as in “bet”, a as in “father”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Lea a boy or girl name?
Lea is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Lea is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 33,799 U.S. babies named Lea since 1880, but that spelling is mostly the French and German form of Leah, so the count says little about the Hawaiian name. In Hawaiʻi itself, 130 babies born in the state were named Lea from 1958 to 2021, with a peak of 9 in 1976. 5 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Lea?
Lea has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.