Mālie

So cute, I much prefer it to Malia!

I am a Malia, different spelling and though it is hard to pronounce, it is unique, beautiful and a challenge for all who meet me. I was always told growing up it meant "Paradise" and have learned certain variations of the name are different. Either way it is stunning and as an adult now I don't think it ever caused me problems.

Malia and Mālie are actually two separate names. Malia is the Hawaiian version of Maria.

This name somehow manages to be both ugly and pretentious. (Hawaiian for "peaceful"? Really?) More importantly, you'd have to be a cruel parent to give your child a name where no one can guess its pronunciation and no one can guess its gender.

How is naming your child a word for calm pretentious? What's pretentious about the meaning? Plenty of names have similar meanings, like Irene, which means 'peace'. Most parents choose to give their children names with positive meanings, and I don't think that's a bad thing. Maybe by pretentious, you are talking about the fact that Mālie is a Hawaiian word, which is just stupid, because of course it is a Hawaiian word; Hawaiian people give their children Hawaiian names with Hawaiian meanings. The people using this name are not just white Americans who want a name for their kid that means something is Hawaiian. Hawaiian names will obviously mean things in Hawaiian.
As for the bit where you say this name is "cruel" because no one will be able to pronounce it or know what the gender is, I ask you to maybe do a little self-reflection, because your ignorance is showing. Plenty of names may be mispronounced by those who are are not familiar to them, but that doesn't mean parents should stop giving their children names from their language and culture because some people might have to hear it before knowing how to say it. And for the bit where you said no one will be able to guess the gender, how is that a bad thing? They will probably know the gender of the person upon meeting them. Plenty of people have gender neutral names, like Sage and Sydney, and I don't see you complaining about those. Mālie may infact be a gender neutral name, as all genuine Hawaiian names are unisex.
Finally, for the part where you called Mālie ugly, ugly is subjective.

This is pretty! =)