What does Lei mean in Hawaiian?
Lei is a Hawaiian girl name that means garland of flowers, beloved child. The name comes from lei (garland). It is pronounced LAY, with 1 syllable. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Lei belongs with other Hawaiian names about flower and love.
The words inside Lei
lei means garland, wreath and appears in 18 Hawaiian names, among them Leilani, Kalei, Leialoha, Hanalei.
How to pronounce Lei
Say every vowel. The vowels in Lei are e as in “bet”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Lei a boy or girl name?
Lei is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Lei is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 675 U.S. babies named Lei since 1937, but that spelling is also a Chinese name, so the count says little about the Hawaiian name. In Hawaiʻi itself, 62 babies born in the state were named Lei from 1943 to 2021, with a peak of 9 in 1962. No year after 1980 reached five births of one sex there.
How well recorded is Lei?
Lei has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.