What does ʻĀina mean in Hawaiian?
ʻĀina is a Hawaiian unisex name that means land, that which feeds. The name comes from ʻāina (land). It is pronounced AH-ee-nah, with 2 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
ʻĀina belongs with other Hawaiian names about earth.
The words inside ʻĀina
ʻāina means land, earth and appears in 2 Hawaiian names, among them Kamaʻāina.
How to pronounce ʻĀina
Say every vowel. The vowels in ʻĀina are a as in “father”, i as “ee”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in ʻĀina is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is ʻĀina a boy or girl name?
ʻĀina is unisex. Hawaiian has no grammatical gender, and most traditional names were given to any child.
How often ʻĀina is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 671 U.S. babies named Aina since 1901, but that spelling is also an Irish and Arabic name, so the count says little about the Hawaiian name.
How well recorded is ʻĀina?
ʻĀina is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.