What does Meli mean in Hawaiian?
Meli is a Hawaiian girl name that means honey, honeybee. The name comes from meli (honey). It is pronounced MEH-lee, with 2 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Meli belongs with other Hawaiian names about nature and gentle.
The words inside Meli
meli means honey.
How to pronounce Meli
Say every vowel. The vowels in Meli are e as in “bet”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Meli a boy or girl name?
Meli is listed here as a girl's name. Of the 161 U.S. babies given it, 100% were girls and 0% boys.
How often Meli is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 161 U.S. babies named Meli from 1986 to 2023, all girls. It appears in 20 of those 38 years. Its peak came in 2023, with 13, and 88 were born from 2014 to 2023. 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 Meli?
Meli is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.