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