What does Wailana mean in Hawaiian?
Wailana is a Hawaiian girl name that means calm, floating water. The name comes from wai (water) + lana (floating). It is pronounced wye-LAH-nah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Wailana belongs with other Hawaiian names about water and peace.
The words inside Wailana
wai means fresh water and appears in 9 Hawaiian names, among them Wailani, Kawai, Kawailani, Waiola.
lana means floating, buoyant, calm and appears in 5 Hawaiian names, among them ʻIolana, Lana, Hoʻolana, Manaʻolana.
How to pronounce Wailana
Say every vowel. The vowels in Wailana are a as in “father”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Wailana a boy or girl name?
Wailana is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Wailana is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Wailana, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Wailana?
Wailana is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.