What does Lilia mean in Hawaiian?
Lilia is a Hawaiian girl name that means lily. The name comes from lilia (lily). It is pronounced lee-LEE-ah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Lilia belongs with other Hawaiian names about flower.
The words inside Lilia
lilia means lily.
Lily in Hawaiian
Lilia is the Hawaiian form of Lily, the English name respelled with Hawaiian sounds. It is not a translation of what Lily means, but it has been used by Hawaiian families since the 1800s. The page on Lily in Hawaiian traces which letters changed and why.
How to pronounce Lilia
Say every vowel. The vowels in Lilia are i as “ee”, a as in “father”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Lilia a boy or girl name?
Lilia is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Lilia is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 13,705 U.S. babies named Lilia since 1884, but that spelling is mostly the Spanish and Slavic name, so the count says little about the Hawaiian name. In Hawaiʻi itself, 67 babies born in the state were named Lilia from 2004 to 2021, with a peak of 11 in 2010. 35 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Lilia?
Lilia has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.