What does Lehuanani mean in Hawaiian?
Lehuanani is a Hawaiian girl name that means beautiful lehua blossom. The name comes from lehua + nani (beautiful). It is pronounced leh-hoo-ah-NAH-nee, with 5 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Lehuanani belongs with other Hawaiian names about flower and beauty.
The lehua blossom
Lehuanani is lehua and nani, the beautiful lehua. The lehua is the red pompom flower of the ʻōhiʻa tree, the tree that is often the first to take root on new lava flows, and in chant and story it is sacred to Pele and Hiʻiaka.
That association with new growth on raw lava gives lehua names a sense of resilience as well as beauty. Nani, beautiful or splendid, is one of the words most often joined to a flower in Hawaiian names.
How to pronounce Lehuanani
Say every vowel. The vowels in Lehuanani are e as in “bet”, u as “oo”, a as in “father”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Lehuanani a boy or girl name?
Lehuanani is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Lehuanani is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 12 U.S. babies named Lehuanani from 1978 to 2023, all girls. It appears in 2 of those 46 years. No year since 1982 has five or more babies of either sex given it. In Hawaiʻi itself, 6 babies born in the state were named Lehuanani from 1982 to 2021, with a peak of 6 in 1982. No year after 1982 reached five births of one sex there.
How well recorded is Lehuanani?
Lehuanani is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.