What does Leiʻohu mean in Hawaiian?
Leiʻohu is a Hawaiian girl name that means lei of mist. The name comes from lei (garland) + ʻohu (mist). It is pronounced lay-OH-hoo, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Leiʻohu belongs with other Hawaiian names about rain and flower.
A lei of mist
Leiʻohu is lei and ʻohu, the mist or light fog that clings to mountain ridges. In Hawaiian poetry a peak wearing its ʻohu is said to wear a lei, so the name borrows a picture from the landscape: cloud draped around a summit like a garland.
The ʻokina in ʻohu is a consonant, so the name is said lay-OH-hoo, with a short stop before the o. It is a girl's name and a rare one.
The words inside Leiʻohu
lei means garland, wreath and appears in 18 Hawaiian names, among them Leilani, Kalei, Leialoha, Hanalei.
ʻohu means mist, light cloud and appears in 2 Hawaiian names, among them Kaʻohu.
How to pronounce Leiʻohu
Say every vowel. The vowels in Leiʻohu are e as in “bet”, i as “ee”, o as in “go”, u as “oo”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in Leiʻohu is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Leiʻohu a boy or girl name?
Leiʻohu is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Leiʻohu is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Leiʻohu, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Leiʻohu?
Leiʻohu is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.