What does Melia mean in Hawaiian?
Melia is a Hawaiian girl name that means plumeria. The name comes from melia (plumeria). It is pronounced meh-LEE-ah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Melia belongs with other Hawaiian names about flower.
The words inside Melia
melia means plumeria.
How to pronounce Melia
Say every vowel. The vowels in Melia are e as in “bet”, i as “ee”, a as in “father”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Melia a boy or girl name?
Melia is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Melia is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 5,176 U.S. babies named Melia since 1890, but that spelling is mostly a short form of Amelia, so the count says little about the Hawaiian name. In Hawaiʻi itself, 118 babies born in the state were named Melia from 1974 to 2021, with a peak of 14 in 2001. 11 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Melia?
Melia has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.