What does Kāhili mean in Hawaiian?
Kāhili is a Hawaiian unisex name that means feather standard of Hawaiian royalty. The name comes from kāhili (royal feather standard). It is pronounced kah-HEE-lee, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kāhili belongs with other Hawaiian names about royalty and bird.
The words inside Kāhili
kāhili means royal feather standard.
How to pronounce Kāhili
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kāhili are a as in “father”, i as “ee”. A vowel with a line over it (kahakō) is held slightly longer. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kāhili a boy or girl name?
Kāhili is unisex. Hawaiian has no grammatical gender, and most traditional names were given to any child.
How often Kāhili is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Kāhili, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Kāhili?
Kāhili is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.