What does Aolani mean in Hawaiian?
Aolani is a Hawaiian unisex name that means heavenly cloud. The name comes from ao (cloud, light) + lani (heaven). It is pronounced ow-LAH-nee, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Aolani belongs with other Hawaiian names about heaven and sky.
The words inside Aolani
ao means daylight, dawn, cloud and appears in 4 Hawaiian names, among them Keao, Hōkūao, Naʻauao.
lani means sky, heaven and appears in 53 Hawaiian names, among them Kailani, Kalani, Leilani, Lani.
How to pronounce Aolani
Say every vowel. The vowels in Aolani are a as in “father”, o as in “go”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Aolani a boy or girl name?
Aolani is listed here as unisex. Of the 872 U.S. babies given it, 100% were girls and 0% boys.
How often Aolani is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 872 U.S. babies named Aolani from 1981 to 2023, all girls. It appears in 33 of those 43 years. Its peak was 2007, with 54. The 2014 to 2023 total of 234 is fewer than in all earlier years combined. In the Hawaiʻi records it never reaches five births of one sex in a year, the level at which a name is listed. It is listed here as unisex, but every recorded U.S. birth has been a girl.
How well recorded is Aolani?
Aolani is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.