What does Kalanimoku mean in Hawaiian?
Kalanimoku is a Hawaiian boy name that means the island chief, the ship of heaven. The name comes from ka (the) + lani (chief) + moku (island, ship). It is pronounced kah-lah-nee-MOH-koo, with 5 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Prime minister of the Hawaiian Kingdom under Kamehameha I and II.
Kalanimoku belongs with other Hawaiian names about royalty.
The words inside Kalanimoku
lani means sky, heaven and appears in 53 Hawaiian names, among them Kailani, Kalani, Leilani, Lani.
moku means island, district.
How to pronounce Kalanimoku
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kalanimoku are a as in “father”, i as “ee”, o as in “go”, u as “oo”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kalanimoku a boy or girl name?
Kalanimoku is used mainly as a boy's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Kalanimoku is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Kalanimoku, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Kalanimoku?
Kalanimoku is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.