What does Manaʻolana mean in Hawaiian?
Manaʻolana is a Hawaiian unisex name that means hope, confidence. The name comes from manaʻo (thought) + lana (buoyant). It is pronounced mah-nah-oh-LAH-nah, with 4 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Manaʻolana belongs with other Hawaiian names about hope.
The words inside Manaʻolana
manaʻo means thought, idea, opinion.
lana means floating, buoyant, calm and appears in 5 Hawaiian names, among them ʻIolana, Lana, Hoʻolana, Wailana.
How to pronounce Manaʻolana
Say every vowel. The vowels in Manaʻolana are a as in “father”, o as in “go”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in Manaʻolana is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Manaʻolana a boy or girl name?
Manaʻolana is unisex. Hawaiian has no grammatical gender, and most traditional names were given to any child.
How often Manaʻolana is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Manaʻolana, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Manaʻolana?
Manaʻolana is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.