What does Mālie mean in Hawaiian?
Mālie is a Hawaiian girl name that means calm, serene, tranquil. The name comes from mālie (calm). It is pronounced mah-LEE-eh, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Mālie belongs with other Hawaiian names about peace and gentle.
The words inside Mālie
mālie means calm, quiet, gentle and appears in 3 Hawaiian names, among them Malia, Kaimālie.
How to pronounce Mālie
Say every vowel. The vowels in Mālie are a as in “father”, i as “ee”, e as in “bet”. A vowel with a line over it (kahakō) is held slightly longer. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Mālie a boy or girl name?
Mālie is listed here as a girl's name. Of the 368 U.S. babies given it, 100% were girls and 0% boys.
How often Mālie is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 368 U.S. babies named Mālie from 1981 to 2023, all girls, counted as Malie because the records drop the ʻokina and kahakō. It appears in 32 of those 43 years. Its peak was 2009, with 20. The 2014 to 2023 total of 121 is fewer than in all earlier years combined. In Hawaiʻi itself, 79 babies born in the state were named Mālie from 1981 to 2021, with a peak of 9 in 2008. 36 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Mālie?
Mālie has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.