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Olina

Pronounced oh-LEE-nah

“joyous”

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oh·LEE·nah

3 syllables. The gold syllable takes the stress.

What does Olina mean in Hawaiian?

Olina is a Hawaiian girl name that means joyous. The name comes from ʻoliʻoli (joy). It is pronounced oh-LEE-nah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.

Olina belongs with other Hawaiian names about joy.

The words inside Olina

ʻoliʻoli means joy, gladness.

How to pronounce Olina

Say every vowel. The vowels in Olina are o as in “go”, i as “ee”, a as in “father”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.

Is Olina a boy or girl name?

Olina is listed here as a girl's name. Of the 292 U.S. babies given it, 100% were girls and 0% boys.

How often Olina is given in the U.S.

Social Security records show 292 U.S. babies named Olina from 1979 to 2023, all girls. It appears in 24 of those 45 years. Its peak came in 2022, with 29, and 165 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 Olina?

Olina is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce Olina?

oh-LEE-nah, in 3 syllables, with the stress on LEE.

Is Olina a girl's or a boy's name?

Olina is used mainly as a girl name, though Hawaiian names carry no grammatical gender and it can be given to any child.

What does Olina mean in Hawaiian?

joyous. It comes from ʻoliʻoli (joy).

Sources the Pukui and Elbert Hawaiian Dictionary, Place Names of Hawaii, Nānā i ke Kumu, wehewehe.org, Wiktionary's Hawaiian given names and U.S. Social Security baby-name records. How this site is compiled · Send a correction

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