What does Hilinaʻi mean in Hawaiian?
Hilinaʻi is a Hawaiian unisex name that means trust, confidence. The name comes from hilinaʻi (to trust). It is pronounced hee-lee-NAH-ee, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Hilinaʻi belongs with other Hawaiian names about wisdom and hope.
The words inside Hilinaʻi
hilinaʻi means to trust, to lean on.
How to pronounce Hilinaʻi
Say every vowel. The vowels in Hilinaʻi are i as “ee”, a as in “father”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in Hilinaʻi is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Hilinaʻi a boy or girl name?
Hilinaʻi is listed here as unisex. Of the 84 U.S. babies given it, 100% were girls and 0% boys.
How often Hilinaʻi is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 84 U.S. babies named Hilinaʻi from 2008 to 2023, all girls, counted as Hilinai because the records drop the ʻokina and kahakō. It appears in 11 of those 16 years. Its peak was 2014, with 12. The 2014 to 2023 total of 55 is more than in all earlier years combined. In Hawaiʻi itself, 55 babies born in the state were named Hilinaʻi from 2008 to 2021, with a peak of 11 in 2014. 34 were born there from 2012 to 2021. It is listed here as unisex, but every recorded U.S. birth has been a girl.
How well recorded is Hilinaʻi?
Hilinaʻi is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.