What does Hinano mean in Hawaiian?
Hinano is a Hawaiian girl name that means the fragrant male blossom of the hala (pandanus) tree. The name comes from hīnano (pandanus flower). It is pronounced hee-NAH-noh, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Hinano belongs with other Hawaiian names about flower.
The words inside Hinano
hīnano means pandanus blossom.
How to pronounce Hinano
Say every vowel. The vowels in Hinano are i as “ee”, a as in “father”, o as in “go”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Hinano a boy or girl name?
Hinano is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Hinano is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 11 U.S. babies named Hinano from 2004 to 2023, all girls. It appears in 2 of those 20 years. No year since 2008 has five or more babies of either sex given it. 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 Hinano?
Hinano is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.