What does Kalanianaʻole mean in Hawaiian?
Kalanianaʻole is a Hawaiian boy name that means the royal chief without measure. The name comes from ka (the) + lani (royal) + ana (measure) + ʻole (without). It is pronounced kah-lah-nee-ah-nah-OH-leh, with 6 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kalanianaʻole belongs with other Hawaiian names about royalty.
Kalanianaʻole
The name belongs to Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole, heir to the Hawaiian throne and later the territory's delegate to Congress, who secured the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1921.
It reads as the royal chief without measure — lani for the heavens and chiefly rank, ʻole meaning without, in the sense of a rank beyond measuring.
The words inside Kalanianaʻole
lani means sky, heaven and appears in 53 Hawaiian names, among them Kailani, Kalani, Leilani, Lani.
ana means cave and appears in 2 Hawaiian names, among them Kaʻanā.
ʻole means without, lacking.
How to pronounce Kalanianaʻole
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kalanianaʻole are a as in “father”, i as “ee”, o as in “go”, e as in “bet”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in Kalanianaʻole is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kalanianaʻole a boy or girl name?
Kalanianaʻole is used mainly as a boy's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Kalanianaʻole is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Kalanianaʻole, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Kalanianaʻole?
Kalanianaʻole is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.