What does Kapualani mean in Hawaiian?
Kapualani is a Hawaiian girl name that means the heavenly flower, royal blossom. The name comes from ka (the) + pua (flower) + lani (heaven, royal). It is pronounced kah-poo-ah-LAH-nee, with 5 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kapualani belongs with other Hawaiian names about flower, heaven and royalty.
The heavenly flower
Kapualani is ka (the), pua (flower, child) and lani (heaven, royal). With both pua and lani carrying a second meaning, the name is the heavenly flower and also the royal child.
It is the same name as Pualani with the article in front, which singles the child out: not a heavenly flower but the heavenly flower. It is a girl's name here.
The words inside Kapualani
pua means flower, blossom and appears in 10 Hawaiian names, among them Kapua, Pua, Pualani, Puanani.
lani means sky, heaven and appears in 53 Hawaiian names, among them Kailani, Kalani, Leilani, Lani.
How to pronounce Kapualani
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kapualani are a as in “father”, u as “oo”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kapualani a boy or girl name?
Kapualani is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Kapualani is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Kapualani, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Kapualani?
Kapualani is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.