What does Makani mean in Hawaiian?
Makani is a Hawaiian unisex name that means wind, breeze. The name comes from makani (wind). It is pronounced mah-KAH-nee, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Makani belongs with other Hawaiian names about wind and nature.
The words inside Makani
makani means wind, breeze and appears in 2 Hawaiian names, among them Kamakani.
How to pronounce Makani
Say every vowel. The vowels in Makani are a as in “father”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Makani a boy or girl name?
Makani is listed here as unisex. Of the 456 U.S. babies given it, 27% were girls and 73% boys.
How often Makani is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 456 U.S. babies named Makani from 1996 to 2023 (122 girls, 334 boys). It appears in 25 of those 28 years. Its peak came in 2022, with 51, and 247 were born from 2014 to 2023. In Hawaiʻi itself, 16 babies born in the state were named Makani from 2000 to 2021, with a peak of 6 in 2007. No year after 2010 reached five births of one sex there.
How well recorded is Makani?
Makani is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.