What does Malana mean in Hawaiian?
Malana is a Hawaiian girl name that means buoyant, light, floating. The name comes from mālana (buoyant). It is pronounced mah-LAH-nah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Malana belongs with other Hawaiian names about water and peace.
The words inside Malana
mālana means buoyant, floating.
How to pronounce Malana
Say every vowel. The vowels in Malana are a as in “father”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Malana a boy or girl name?
Malana is listed here as a girl's name. Of the 1,177 U.S. babies given it, 100% were girls and 0% boys.
How often Malana is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 1,177 U.S. babies named Malana from 1953 to 2023, all girls. It appears in 58 of those 71 years. Its peak was 2007, with 67. The 2014 to 2023 total of 282 is fewer than in all earlier years combined. In the Hawaiʻi records it never reaches five births of one sex in a year, the level at which a name is listed.
How well recorded is Malana?
Malana is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.