What does Liliʻuokalani mean in Hawaiian?
Liliʻuokalani is a Hawaiian girl name that means smarting of the royal ones. The name comes from liliʻu (smarting) + o ka lani (of the heavens). It is pronounced lee-lee-oo-oh-kah-LAH-nee, with 6 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Queen Liliʻuokalani (1838 to 1917), last sovereign of the Hawaiian Kingdom and composer of 'Aloha ʻOe'.
Liliʻuokalani belongs with other Hawaiian names about royalty.
Queen Liliʻuokalani
Liliʻuokalani was the last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom, ruling from 1891 until she was deposed in January 1893 by a group of American and European businessmen backed by US Marines. She yielded her authority under protest, explicitly to avoid bloodshed, and addressed her surrender to the United States government rather than to the men who had taken the palace.
She was also a prolific composer. 'Aloha ʻOe' is hers, along with more than a hundred other songs, and she wrote 'Hawaiʻi's Story by Hawaiʻi's Queen' while under house arrest in ʻIolani Palace after a failed counter-revolution.
The name is usually read as the smarting or pain of the royal ones, given in connection with an eye ailment suffered by a chiefess at the time of her birth.
The words inside Liliʻuokalani
liliʻu means smarting, burning.
How to pronounce Liliʻuokalani
Say every vowel. The vowels in Liliʻuokalani are i as “ee”, u as “oo”, o as in “go”, a as in “father”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in Liliʻuokalani is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Liliʻuokalani a boy or girl name?
Liliʻuokalani is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Liliʻuokalani is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 15 U.S. babies named Liliʻuokalani from 2011 to 2023, all girls, counted as Liliuokalani because the records drop the ʻokina and kahakō. It appears in 2 of those 13 years. Its peak was 2019, with 9. The 2014 to 2023 total of 9 is more than in all earlier years combined. In the Hawaiʻi records it never reaches five births of one sex in a year, the level at which a name is listed.
How well recorded is Liliʻuokalani?
Liliʻuokalani is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.