What does Lokelani mean in Hawaiian?
Lokelani is a Hawaiian girl name that means heavenly rose, the pink rose of Maui. The name comes from loke (rose) + lani (heaven). It is pronounced loh-keh-LAH-nee, with 4 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Lokelani belongs with other Hawaiian names about flower and heaven.
The flower of Maui
Lokelani is loke (rose) and lani (heaven), the heavenly rose. Loke is Hawaiian for rose, from the English word, and the lokelani is the small pink damask rose that is the official flower of the island of Maui.
So the name points to a real flower and to an island. It is a girl's name, and families with ties to Maui sometimes choose it for that reason.
The words inside Lokelani
loke means rose and appears in 2 Hawaiian names, among them Loke.
lani means sky, heaven and appears in 53 Hawaiian names, among them Kailani, Kalani, Leilani, Lani.
How to pronounce Lokelani
Say every vowel. The vowels in Lokelani are o as in “go”, e as in “bet”, a as in “father”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Lokelani a boy or girl name?
Lokelani is listed here as a girl's name. Of the 133 U.S. babies given it, 100% were girls and 0% boys.
How often Lokelani is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 133 U.S. babies named Lokelani from 1979 to 2023, all girls. It appears in 22 of those 45 years. Its peak was 2005, with 8. The 2014 to 2023 total of 28 is fewer than in all earlier years combined. In Hawaiʻi itself, 20 babies born in the state were named Lokelani from 1979 to 2021, with a peak of 5 in 1979. No year after 2001 reached five births of one sex there.
How well recorded is Lokelani?
Lokelani has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.