What does Maile mean in Hawaiian?
Maile is a Hawaiian girl name that means the maile vine, a fragrant lei plant. The name comes from maile (Alyxia stellata). It is pronounced MY-leh, with 2 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Maile belongs with other Hawaiian names about flower, nature and tree.
The words inside Maile
maile means maile vine.
How to pronounce Maile
Say every vowel. The vowels in Maile are a as in “father”, i as “ee”, e as in “bet”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Maile a boy or girl name?
Maile is listed here as a girl's name. Of the 3,613 U.S. babies given it, 100% were girls and 0% boys.
How often Maile is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 3,613 U.S. babies named Maile from 1919 to 2023, all girls. It appears in 92 of those 105 years. Its peak was 2007, with 154. The 2014 to 2023 total of 268 is fewer than in all earlier years combined. In Hawaiʻi itself, 976 babies born in the state were named Maile from 1919 to 2021, with a peak of 29 in 1975. 58 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Maile?
Maile has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.