Palila is a native Hawaiian honeycreeper, a small golden bird of the high forests. It carries lightness and rarity.
Palila 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.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Palila reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.