What does Nāhiʻenaʻena mean in Hawaiian?
Nāhiʻenaʻena is a Hawaiian girl name that means the raging fires. The name comes from nā (the) + hiʻena (blazing), reduplicated. It is pronounced nah-hee-eh-nah-EH-nah, with 5 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Princess and daughter of Kamehameha I.
Nāhiʻenaʻena belongs with other Hawaiian names about royalty and fire.
The words inside Nāhiʻenaʻena
hiʻena means blazing, flaming.
How to pronounce Nāhiʻenaʻena
Say every vowel. The vowels in Nāhiʻenaʻena are a as in “father”, i as “ee”, e as in “bet”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in Nāhiʻenaʻena is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. A vowel with a line over it (kahakō) is held slightly longer. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Nāhiʻenaʻena a boy or girl name?
Nāhiʻenaʻena is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Nāhiʻenaʻena is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Nāhiʻenaʻena, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Nāhiʻenaʻena?
Nāhiʻenaʻena is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.