What does Palila mean in Hawaiian?
Palila is a Hawaiian girl name that means a native honeycreeper bird of Mauna Kea. The name comes from palila (Loxioides bailleui). It is pronounced pah-LEE-lah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Palila belongs with other Hawaiian names about bird and nature.
The words inside Palila
palila means a native honeycreeper.
How to pronounce Palila
Say every vowel. The vowels in Palila are a as in “father”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Palila a boy or girl name?
Palila is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Palila is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Palila, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Palila?
Palila is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.