What does Hualani mean in Hawaiian?
Hualani is a Hawaiian girl name that means heavenly fruit, royal offspring. The name comes from hua (fruit, offspring) + lani (heaven, royal). It is pronounced hoo-ah-LAH-nee, with 4 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Hualani belongs with other Hawaiian names about heaven and royalty.
Heavenly fruit, royal offspring
Hualani is hua (fruit, seed, egg, and by extension offspring) and lani (heaven, and royal). Read one way it is heavenly fruit, read the other it is a child of chiefly rank, and Hawaiian names often mean to carry both readings at once.
Hua is also the word for a word or a syllable, so poets could play on it further, but the reading families give most often is the royal child.
The words inside Hualani
hua means fruit, egg, offspring.
lani means sky, heaven and appears in 53 Hawaiian names, among them Kailani, Kalani, Leilani, Lani.
How to pronounce Hualani
Say every vowel. The vowels in Hualani are u as “oo”, a as in “father”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Hualani a boy or girl name?
Hualani is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Hualani is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Hualani, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Hualani?
Hualani is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.