What does Lehuakona mean in Hawaiian?
Lehuakona is a Hawaiian girl name that means lehua blossom of Kona. The name comes from lehua + Kona. It is pronounced leh-hoo-ah-KOH-nah, with 5 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Lehuakona belongs with other Hawaiian names about flower and earth.
A lehua of Kona
Lehuakona joins lehua, the red blossom of the ʻōhiʻa tree, and Kona, the leeward district of Hawaiʻi Island. Hawaiian poetry often ties a flower to a place, and a name like this points to the lehua forests on the slopes above Kona.
Kona is also the word for leeward and for the kona wind, so the name can be read more loosely as a lehua of the leeward side. It is a girl's name here.
How to pronounce Lehuakona
Say every vowel. The vowels in Lehuakona are e as in “bet”, u as “oo”, a as in “father”, o as in “go”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Lehuakona a boy or girl name?
Lehuakona is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Lehuakona is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Lehuakona, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Lehuakona?
Lehuakona is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.