What does Kaʻili mean in Hawaiian?
Kaʻili is a Hawaiian boy name that means the skin, the pebble. The name comes from ka (the) + ʻili (skin, pebble). It is pronounced KYE-lee, with 2 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
The words inside Kaʻili
ʻili means skin.
How to pronounce Kaʻili
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kaʻili are a as in “father”, i as “ee”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in Kaʻili is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kaʻili a boy or girl name?
Kaʻili is used mainly as a boy's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Kaʻili is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 2,873 U.S. babies named Kaili since 1977, but that spelling is mostly a spelling of Kylie, so the count says little about the Hawaiian name. In Hawaiʻi itself, 74 babies born in the state were named Kaʻili from 1992 to 2021, with a peak of 10 in 2006. No year after 2011 reached five births of one sex there.
How well recorded is Kaʻili?
Kaʻili has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.