What does Ola mean in Hawaiian?
Ola is a Hawaiian unisex name that means life, health, well-being. The name comes from ola (life). It is pronounced OH-lah, with 2 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Ola belongs with other Hawaiian names about life and hope.
The words inside Ola
ola means life, health, well-being and appears in 5 Hawaiian names, among them Keola, Waiola, Kawaiola, Keolamau.
How to pronounce Ola
Say every vowel. The vowels in Ola are o as in “go”, a as in “father”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Ola a boy or girl name?
Ola is unisex. Hawaiian has no grammatical gender, and most traditional names were given to any child.
How often Ola is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 30,242 U.S. babies named Ola since 1880, but that spelling is also a Scandinavian and Polish name, and an English girl's name of the 1880s, so the count says little about the Hawaiian name.
How well recorded is Ola?
Ola is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.