What does Kaipolani mean in Hawaiian?
Kaipolani is a Hawaiian girl name that means heavenly sweetheart. The name comes from ka (the) + ipo (sweetheart) + lani (heaven). It is pronounced kye-poh-LAH-nee, with 4 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kaipolani belongs with other Hawaiian names about love and heaven.
The heavenly sweetheart
Kaipolani is ka (the), ipo (sweetheart, lover) and lani (heaven). Ipo is the word of love songs, as in kuʻu ipo, my sweetheart, and with lani it becomes the heavenly sweetheart, a name for a child who is adored.
Without lani it is Kaipo, the sweetheart, a better-known name used for boys and girls. Kaipolani is longer and rarer, and the lani lifts it into something exalted.
The words inside Kaipolani
ipo means sweetheart, lover and appears in 4 Hawaiian names, among them Kaipo, Ipo, Kuʻuipo.
lani means sky, heaven and appears in 53 Hawaiian names, among them Kailani, Kalani, Leilani, Lani.
How to pronounce Kaipolani
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kaipolani are a as in “father”, i as “ee”, o as in “go”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kaipolani a boy or girl name?
Kaipolani is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Kaipolani is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Kaipolani, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Kaipolani?
Kaipolani is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.