Given name
Aloha
“one showing love, compassion, and affection”
Aloha is used as a given name. One Hawaiian interpretation is “one showing love, compassion, and affection.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hawaiian interpretation is “one showing love, compassion, and affection.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hawaiian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Aloha through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 867
- 0 boys · 867 girls
- Most popular year
- 1927
- 37 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #15,063 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
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- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 15,063 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 37 in 1927. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 660 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
People named Aloha
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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