What does Hāweo mean in Hawaiian?
Hāweo is a Hawaiian unisex name that means glowing, radiant. The name comes from hāweo (to glow). It is pronounced HAH-veh-oh, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Hāweo belongs with other Hawaiian names about light.
The words inside Hāweo
hāweo means to glow, to shine.
How to pronounce Hāweo
Say every vowel. The vowels in Hāweo are a as in “father”, e as in “bet”, o as in “go”. A vowel with a line over it (kahakō) is held slightly longer. A w after i or e is pronounced like a v. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Hāweo a boy or girl name?
Hāweo is unisex. Hawaiian has no grammatical gender, and most traditional names were given to any child.
How often Hāweo is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 5 U.S. babies named Hāweo from 2023 to 2023, all boys, counted as Haweo because the records drop the ʻokina and kahakō. It appears every year from 2023 on. Its peak came in 2023, with 5, and 5 were born from 2014 to 2023. In the Hawaiʻi records it never reaches five births of one sex in a year, the level at which a name is listed.
How well recorded is Hāweo?
Hāweo is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.