What does Leilehua mean in Hawaiian?
Leilehua is a Hawaiian girl name that means lehua blossom lei. The name comes from lei (garland) + lehua (ʻōhiʻa flower). It is pronounced lay-leh-HOO-ah, with 4 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Leilehua belongs with other Hawaiian names about flower.
A lei of lehua
Leilehua is lei and lehua, a garland made from the red blossoms of the ʻōhiʻa tree. Lehua lei are among the most prized in Hawaiʻi, and the flower is associated with Pele and with the uplands of Hawaiʻi Island, where ʻōhiʻa forest covers the slopes.
Leilehua is also the name of a plain in central Oʻahu, between the Waiʻanae and Koʻolau ranges, so the name can point to a place as well as a flower.
The words inside Leilehua
lei means garland, wreath and appears in 18 Hawaiian names, among them Leilani, Kalei, Leialoha, Hanalei.
lehua means the ʻōhiʻa lehua blossom and appears in 2 Hawaiian names, among them Lehua.
How to pronounce Leilehua
Say every vowel. The vowels in Leilehua are e as in “bet”, i as “ee”, u as “oo”, a as in “father”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Leilehua a boy or girl name?
Leilehua is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Leilehua is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Leilehua, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Leilehua?
Leilehua is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.