What does Nāpua mean in Hawaiian?
Nāpua is a Hawaiian girl name that means the flowers. The name comes from nā (the, plural) + pua (flowers). It is pronounced NAH-poo-ah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Nāpua belongs with other Hawaiian names about flower.
Nā, the plural the
Nāpua is nā (the, plural) and pua (flowers), the flowers. Hawaiian marks the plural with the article rather than the noun, so pua stays the same and nā turns one flower into many.
Because pua also means children or descendants, Nāpua can be read as the children or the offspring of a family as well as a bouquet. It is a girl's name.
The words inside Nāpua
pua means flower, blossom and appears in 10 Hawaiian names, among them Kapua, Pua, Pualani, Puanani.
How to pronounce Nāpua
Say every vowel. The vowels in Nāpua are a as in “father”, u as “oo”. A vowel with a line over it (kahakō) is held slightly longer. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Nāpua a boy or girl name?
Nāpua is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Nāpua is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 6 U.S. babies named Nāpua from 1979 to 2023, all girls, counted as Napua because the records drop the ʻokina and kahakō. It appears in 1 of those 45 years. No year since 1979 has five or more babies of either sex given it. In Hawaiʻi itself, 6 babies born in the state were named Nāpua from 1979 to 2021, with a peak of 6 in 1979. No year after 1979 reached five births of one sex there.
How well recorded is Nāpua?
Nāpua has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.