What does Ahonui mean in Hawaiian?
Ahonui is a Hawaiian unisex name that means patience, perseverance. The name comes from aho (breath) + nui (great). It is pronounced ah-hoh-NOO-ee, with 4 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Ahonui belongs with other Hawaiian names about wisdom and peace.
The words inside Ahonui
aho means breath, cord, patience.
nui means big, great, important and appears in 4 Hawaiian names, among them Kahananui, Makanui, ʻŌpūnui.
How to pronounce Ahonui
Say every vowel. The vowels in Ahonui are a as in “father”, o as in “go”, u as “oo”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Ahonui a boy or girl name?
Ahonui is unisex. Hawaiian has no grammatical gender, and most traditional names were given to any child.
How often Ahonui is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Ahonui, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Ahonui?
Ahonui is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.