What does Mahina mean in Hawaiian?
Mahina is a Hawaiian girl name that means moon, moonlight. The name comes from mahina (moon, month). It is pronounced mah-HEE-nah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Mahina belongs with other Hawaiian names about moon, light and sky.
The words inside Mahina
mahina means moon, month.
How to pronounce Mahina
Say every vowel. The vowels in Mahina are a as in “father”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Mahina a boy or girl name?
Mahina is listed here as a girl's name. Of the 605 U.S. babies given it, 100% were girls and 0% boys.
How often Mahina is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 605 U.S. babies named Mahina from 1974 to 2023, all girls. It appears in 35 of those 50 years. Its peak came in 2022, with 53, and 315 were born from 2014 to 2023. In Hawaiʻi itself, 291 babies born in the state were named Mahina from 1985 to 2021, with a peak of 20 in 2019. 135 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Mahina?
Mahina has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.