What does lanakila mean in Hawaiian?
Lanakila is victory — to overcome, to prevail. It is a common name and a common place name, and it carries no sense of conquest over a person, only of having come through.
Say it lah-nah-KEE-lah. Every vowel is pronounced, and the capitalized syllable takes the stress. The pronunciation guide covers the rules.
On this site lanakila is part of 1 names: 0 begin with it, 0 end with it, and 1 carry it elsewhere. They split evenly between girls and boys, and all of them sit in the group of Hawaiian names meaning warrior.