What does Malulani mean in Hawaiian?
Malulani is a Hawaiian girl name that means under heavenly protection. The name comes from malu (shelter) + lani (heaven). It is pronounced mah-loo-LAH-nee, with 4 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Malulani belongs with other Hawaiian names about peace and heaven.
The words inside Malulani
malu means shade, shelter, protection, peace and appears in 5 Hawaiian names, among them Malu, Hoʻomalu, Kamalu, Kekaimalu.
lani means sky, heaven and appears in 53 Hawaiian names, among them Kailani, Kalani, Leilani, Lani.
How to pronounce Malulani
Say every vowel. The vowels in Malulani are a as in “father”, u as “oo”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Malulani a boy or girl name?
Malulani is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Malulani is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 5 U.S. babies named Malulani from 2013 to 2023, all girls. It appears in 1 of those 11 years. No year since 2013 has five or more babies of either sex given it. 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 Malulani?
Malulani is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.