What does Malia mean in Hawaiian?
Malia is a Hawaiian girl name that means calm and gentle, Hawaiian form of Mary. The name comes from mālie (calm). It is pronounced mah-LEE-ah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Malia belongs with other Hawaiian names about peace, gentle and biblical.
The words inside Malia
mālie means calm, quiet, gentle and appears in 3 Hawaiian names, among them Mālie, Kaimālie.
Mary in Hawaiian
Malia is the Hawaiian form of Mary, the English name respelled with Hawaiian sounds. It is not a translation of what Mary means, but it has been used by Hawaiian families since the 1800s. The page on Mary in Hawaiian traces which letters changed and why.
How to pronounce Malia
Say every vowel. The vowels in Malia are a as in “father”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Malia a boy or girl name?
Malia is listed here as a girl's name. Of the 29,746 U.S. babies given it, 100% were girls and 0% boys.
How often Malia is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 29,746 U.S. babies named Malia from 1919 to 2023, all girls. It appears in 73 of those 105 years. Its peak was 2009, with 1,699. The 2014 to 2023 total of 11,878 is fewer than in all earlier years combined. In Hawaiʻi itself, 1,808 babies born in the state were named Malia from 1958 to 2021, with a peak of 58 in 1977. 178 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Malia?
Malia has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.