What does Kilohana mean in Hawaiian?
Kilohana is a Hawaiian unisex name that means the best, the lookout, the outermost decorated layer of kapa. The name comes from kilohana (superior). It is pronounced kee-loh-HAH-nah, with 4 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kilohana belongs with other Hawaiian names about beauty and strength.
The words inside Kilohana
kilohana means the best, superior.
How to pronounce Kilohana
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kilohana are i as “ee”, o as in “go”, a as in “father”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kilohana a boy or girl name?
Kilohana is unisex. Hawaiian has no grammatical gender, and most traditional names were given to any child.
How often Kilohana is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Kilohana, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Kilohana?
Kilohana is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.