What does Malu mean in Hawaiian?
Malu is a Hawaiian unisex name that means shelter, peace, protection. The name comes from malu (shade, protection). It is pronounced MAH-loo, with 2 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Malu belongs with other Hawaiian names about peace and gentle.
The words inside Malu
malu means shade, shelter, protection, peace and appears in 5 Hawaiian names, among them Hoʻomalu, Kamalu, Kekaimalu, Malulani.
How to pronounce Malu
Say every vowel. The vowels in Malu are a as in “father”, u as “oo”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Malu a boy or girl name?
Malu is listed here as unisex. Of the 227 U.S. babies given it, 98% were girls and 2% boys.
How often Malu is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 227 U.S. babies named Malu from 1995 to 2023 (222 girls, 5 boys). It appears in 19 of those 29 years. Its peak was 2020, with 28. The 2014 to 2023 total of 167 is more 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 Malu?
Malu is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.