What does leo mean in Hawaiian?
Leo is the voice — the sound a person makes, and by extension the tone or manner of what is said.
It is the root of leo kīkē (a scolding voice), leo nahenahe (a soft, sweet voice) and leo nui (a loud one), and it sits at the centre of a musical tradition that was carried by voice long before it was written down.
Leo is also an unrelated Latin name meaning lion, which is why it is one of the small set of names that need no respelling to work in Hawaiian: the letters already fit.
Say it LEH-oh. Every vowel is pronounced, and the capitalized syllable takes the stress. The pronunciation guide covers the rules.
On this site leo is part of 3 names: 1 begin with it, 1 end with it, and 1 carry it elsewhere. Most are boy names, and all of them sit in the group of Hawaiian names meaning music.