What is Alana in Hawaiian?
Alana is Alana in Hawaiian, said ah-LAH-nah.
How Alana became Alana
Alana came through untouched. Every letter in it is already a Hawaiian letter, so there was nothing to swap and nothing to add, which is why the English and Hawaiian spellings match.
Alana as a Hawaiian name
Alana is not only a borrowed spelling. It reads as Hawaiian in its own right, meaning “awakening, an offering”, and it is given as a girl's name in Hawaiʻi today. Its own page has the full meaning, the word it is built from, and names that go with it.
As a Hawaiian name, Alana is read as the word ʻalana, “offering, awakening”.
How to say Alana
Say it ah-LAH-nah, leaning on LAH, sounding every vowel: a as in “father”. The pronunciation guide covers the whole system.