"lei making"
The name Hanalei is commonly a unisex name from the "Hawaiian" origin that means "lei making".
Hanalei is a Hawaiian place name, borne by the bay, the river and the town on the north shore of Kauai. It segments into two Hawaiian words, hana, meaning work or making, and lei, meaning garland, so read literally the elements give "lei making" or "lei maker". English speakers began using it as a given name in the United States in 2000, the first year it appears in US birth records.
The pronunciation of Hanalei is hah-nuh-LAY.
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