Wāwaeʻiole o ʻIolekaʻa (Codium iolekaa, Clade P) honours ʻIolekaʻa, a rat warrior who lived in ʻEwa. ʻIolekaʻa battled with another rat, Makaʻiolenānāwai, and is famed and memorialized in place names on Oʻahu. This name was selected for this species for one area this limu is found is in Kalaeloa, ʻEwa.
