What does Aliʻi mean in Hawaiian?
Aliʻi is a Hawaiian unisex name that means chief, royalty. The name comes from aliʻi (chief). It is pronounced ah-LEE-ee, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Aliʻi belongs with other Hawaiian names about royalty.
The words inside Aliʻi
aliʻi means chief, chiefess, royal and appears in 5 Hawaiian names, among them Ailani, Kealiʻi, Keliʻi, Kūaliʻi.
How to pronounce Aliʻi
Say every vowel. The vowels in Aliʻi are a as in “father”, i as “ee”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in Aliʻi is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Aliʻi a boy or girl name?
Aliʻi is listed here as unisex. Of the 78 U.S. babies given it, 8% were girls and 92% boys.
How often Aliʻi is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 78 U.S. babies named Aliʻi from 2006 to 2023 (6 girls, 72 boys), counted as Alii because the records drop the ʻokina and kahakō. It appears in 12 of those 18 years. Its peak came in 2022, with 10, and 42 were born from 2014 to 2023. In Hawaiʻi itself, 5 babies born in the state were named Aliʻi from 2014 to 2021, with a peak of 5 in 2014. 5 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Aliʻi?
Aliʻi is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.