What does Luana mean in Hawaiian?
Luana is a Hawaiian girl name that means content, relaxed, to enjoy oneself. The name comes from luana (to be at leisure). It is pronounced loo-AH-nah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Luana belongs with other Hawaiian names about joy and peace.
Luana beyond Hawaiian
Luana means to be at ease, to enjoy oneself, to be content — the state of a day with nothing pressing in it.
The name also exists independently in Italian and Portuguese, where it was popularised in the twentieth century and has no Hawaiian connection. As with Kai, two unrelated languages arrived at the same spelling.
The words inside Luana
luana means to be at leisure.
Luana in Hawaiian
Luana is the Hawaiian form of Luana, the English name respelled with Hawaiian sounds. It is not a translation of what Luana means, but it has been used by Hawaiian families since the 1800s. The page on Luana in Hawaiian traces which letters changed and why.
How to pronounce Luana
Say every vowel. The vowels in Luana are u as “oo”, a as in “father”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Luana a boy or girl name?
Luana is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Luana is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 4,678 U.S. babies named Luana since 1911, but that spelling is mostly the Italian and Portuguese name, so the count says little about the Hawaiian name. In Hawaiʻi itself, 138 babies born in the state were named Luana from 1941 to 2021, with a peak of 10 in 1972. 5 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Luana?
Luana has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.