What does Hoʻoilo mean in Hawaiian?
Hoʻoilo is a Hawaiian unisex name that means winter, the rainy season. The name comes from hoʻoilo (winter). It is pronounced hoh-oh-EE-loh, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Hoʻoilo belongs with other Hawaiian names about rain and nature.
The words inside Hoʻoilo
hoʻoilo means winter, the wet season.
How to pronounce Hoʻoilo
Say every vowel. The vowels in Hoʻoilo are o as in “go”, i as “ee”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in Hoʻoilo is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Hoʻoilo a boy or girl name?
Hoʻoilo is unisex. Hawaiian has no grammatical gender, and most traditional names were given to any child.
How often Hoʻoilo is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Hoʻoilo, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Hoʻoilo?
Hoʻoilo is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.