What does Naʻauao mean in Hawaiian?
Naʻauao is a Hawaiian unisex name that means wisdom, enlightened. The name comes from naʻau (gut, mind) + ao (light). It is pronounced nah-ow-OW, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Naʻauao belongs with other Hawaiian names about wisdom and light.
The words inside Naʻauao
naʻau means gut.
ao means daylight, dawn, cloud and appears in 4 Hawaiian names, among them Aolani, Keao, Hōkūao.
How to pronounce Naʻauao
Say every vowel. The vowels in Naʻauao are a as in “father”, u as “oo”, o as in “go”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in Naʻauao is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Naʻauao a boy or girl name?
Naʻauao is unisex. Hawaiian has no grammatical gender, and most traditional names were given to any child.
How often Naʻauao is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Naʻauao, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Naʻauao?
Naʻauao is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.