What does Auliʻi mean in Hawaiian?
Auliʻi is a Hawaiian girl name that means dainty, exquisite, perfect. The name comes from auliʻi (neat, exquisite). It is pronounced ow-LEE-ee, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Auliʻi belongs with other Hawaiian names about beauty.
The words inside Auliʻi
auliʻi means neat, dainty, exquisite.
How to pronounce Auliʻi
Say every vowel. The vowels in Auliʻi are a as in “father”, u as “oo”, i as “ee”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in Auliʻi is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Auliʻi a boy or girl name?
Auliʻi is listed here as a girl's name. Of the 42 U.S. babies given it, 100% were girls and 0% boys.
How often Auliʻi is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 42 U.S. babies named Auliʻi from 1997 to 2023, all girls, counted as Aulii because the records drop the ʻokina and kahakō. It appears in 8 of those 27 years. Its peak was 2007, with 6. The 2014 to 2023 total of 26 is more than in all earlier years combined. In Hawaiʻi itself, 5 babies born in the state were named Auliʻi from 1997 to 2021, with a peak of 5 in 1997. No year after 1997 reached five births of one sex there.
How well recorded is Auliʻi?
Auliʻi is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.