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
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Grammatical form
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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

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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.