What does Malaea mean in Hawaiian?
Malaea is a Hawaiian girl name that means Hawaiian form of Maria. It is pronounced mah-LYE-ah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Malaea belongs with other Hawaiian names about biblical.
Maria in Hawaiian
Malaea is the Hawaiian form of Maria, the English name respelled with Hawaiian sounds. It is not a translation of what Maria means, but it has been used by Hawaiian families since the 1800s. See your name in Hawaiian for the full list of recorded forms.
How to pronounce Malaea
Say every vowel. The vowels in Malaea are a as in “father”, e as in “bet”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Malaea a boy or girl name?
Malaea is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Malaea is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Malaea, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Malaea?
Malaea has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.