What does Liholiho mean in Hawaiian?
Liholiho is a Hawaiian boy name that means glowing, blazing. The name comes from liho (to glow), reduplicated. It is pronounced lee-hoh-LEE-hoh, with 4 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kamehameha II's given name.
Liholiho belongs with other Hawaiian names about fire, royalty and light.
The words inside Liholiho
liho means to glow.
How to pronounce Liholiho
Say every vowel. The vowels in Liholiho are i as “ee”, o as in “go”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Liholiho a boy or girl name?
Liholiho is used mainly as a boy's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Liholiho is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Liholiho, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Liholiho?
Liholiho is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.