What does Kaiona mean in Hawaiian?
Kaiona is a Hawaiian girl name that means a benevolent goddess of the Waiʻanae mountains. The name comes from legendary name. It is pronounced kye-OH-nah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kaiona belongs with other Hawaiian names about mythology and mountain.
Kaiona of the Waiʻanae range
Kaiona is remembered in Oʻahu tradition as a kindly goddess of the Waiʻanae mountains, around Kaʻala, the island's highest peak. Stories describe her helping travellers who lose their way in the uplands and guiding them back to the trail.
As a given name it keeps that protective figure in view. It is a girl's name here, and a rare one.
How to pronounce Kaiona
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kaiona are a as in “father”, i as “ee”, o as in “go”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kaiona a boy or girl name?
Kaiona is listed here as a girl's name. Of the 25 U.S. babies given it, 100% were girls and 0% boys.
How often Kaiona is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 25 U.S. babies named Kaiona from 2002 to 2023, all girls. It appears in 4 of those 22 years. Its peak was 2002, with 9. The 2014 to 2023 total of 10 is fewer than in all earlier years combined. 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 Kaiona?
Kaiona is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.