What does Alohi mean in Hawaiian?
Alohi is a Hawaiian unisex name that means shining, brilliant. The name comes from alohi (to shine). It is pronounced ah-LOH-hee, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Alohi belongs with other Hawaiian names about light.
The words inside Alohi
alohi means to shine, brightness and appears in 2 Hawaiian names, among them Alohilani.
How to pronounce Alohi
Say every vowel. The vowels in Alohi are a as in “father”, o as in “go”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Alohi a boy or girl name?
Alohi is listed here as unisex. Of the 53 U.S. babies given it, 91% were girls and 9% boys.
How often Alohi is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 53 U.S. babies named Alohi from 2009 to 2023 (48 girls, 5 boys). It appears in 7 of those 15 years. Its peak came in 2021, with 16, and 47 were born from 2014 to 2023. In Hawaiʻi itself, 6 babies born in the state were named Alohi from 2021 to 2021, with a peak of 6 in 2021. 6 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Alohi?
Alohi is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.