What does Awapuhi mean in Hawaiian?
Awapuhi is a Hawaiian girl name that means wild ginger. The name comes from ʻawapuhi (Zingiber zerumbet). It is pronounced ah-vah-POO-hee, with 4 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Awapuhi belongs with other Hawaiian names about flower and nature.
The words inside Awapuhi
ʻawapuhi means wild ginger.
How to pronounce Awapuhi
Say every vowel. The vowels in Awapuhi are a as in “father”, u as “oo”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Awapuhi a boy or girl name?
Awapuhi is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Awapuhi is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Awapuhi, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Awapuhi?
Awapuhi is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.