Entry № 4594 · Hawaiian origin

Iolana Iolana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ee-oh-LAH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hawaiian
Meaning
"To soar, to fly upward"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Hawaiian)

A name that means "to soar, to fly upward".

Iolana is a Hawaiian name meaning "to soar" — from the root iola (to fly).

Iolana is rare even in Hawaii but distinctive — chosen for its imagery.

To soar. The Hawaiian word for flight.

The name in its native script.

Iolana
Transliteration
Iolana
Pronunciation
/ ˌiː.oʊˈlɑː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Iolana stands.

Iolana does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Iolanas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Iolana
Common in Hawaiian poetry.

Names connected to Iolana.

The number behind Iolana.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Iolana reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.