What does Hinahina mean in Hawaiian?
Hinahina is a Hawaiian girl name that means silvery gray, beach heliotrope, flower of Kahoʻolawe. The name comes from hina (gray), reduplicated. It is pronounced hee-nah-HEE-nah, with 4 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Hinahina belongs with other Hawaiian names about flower and light.
The words inside Hinahina
hina means gray, silvered and appears in 2 Hawaiian names, among them Hina.
How to pronounce Hinahina
Say every vowel. The vowels in Hinahina are i as “ee”, a as in “father”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Hinahina a boy or girl name?
Hinahina is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Hinahina is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Hinahina, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Hinahina?
Hinahina is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.