What does Nāinoa mean in Hawaiian?
Nāinoa is a Hawaiian boy name that means the namesakes, name of navigator Nainoa Thompson. The name comes from nā (the) + inoa (names). It is pronounced nye-NOH-ah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Nāinoa belongs with other Hawaiian names about ocean and star.
The words inside Nāinoa
inoa means name and appears in 2 Hawaiian names, among them Kainoa.
How to pronounce Nāinoa
Say every vowel. The vowels in Nāinoa are a as in “father”, i as “ee”, o as in “go”. A vowel with a line over it (kahakō) is held slightly longer. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Nāinoa a boy or girl name?
Nāinoa is listed here as a boy's name. Of the 575 U.S. babies given it, 0% were girls and 100% boys.
How often Nāinoa is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 575 U.S. babies named Nāinoa from 1985 to 2023, all boys, counted as Nainoa because the records drop the ʻokina and kahakō. It appears in 36 of those 39 years. Its peak was 2002, with 33. The 2014 to 2023 total of 138 is fewer than in all earlier years combined. In Hawaiʻi itself, 386 babies born in the state were named Nāinoa from 1985 to 2021, with a peak of 27 in 2002. 57 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Nāinoa?
Nāinoa has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.