What does Haunani mean in Hawaiian?
Haunani is a Hawaiian girl name that means beautiful snow, beautiful dew. The name comes from hau (snow, cool dew) + nani (beautiful). It is pronounced how-NAH-nee, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Haunani belongs with other Hawaiian names about beauty, mountain and water.
The words inside Haunani
hau means the hau tree and appears in 2 Hawaiian names, among them Haumea.
nani means beauty, beautiful, glorious and appears in 6 Hawaiian names, among them Kanani, Nani, Puanani, Leinani.
How to pronounce Haunani
Say every vowel. The vowels in Haunani are a as in “father”, u as “oo”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Haunani a boy or girl name?
Haunani is listed here as a girl's name. Of the 79 U.S. babies given it, 100% were girls and 0% boys.
How often Haunani is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 79 U.S. babies named Haunani from 1953 to 2023, all girls. It appears in 12 of those 71 years. Its peak was 1979, with 11. The 2014 to 2023 total of 5 is fewer than in all earlier years combined. In Hawaiʻi itself, 46 babies born in the state were named Haunani from 1953 to 2021, with a peak of 8 in 1979. No year after 1988 reached five births of one sex there.
How well recorded is Haunani?
Haunani has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.