What does Onaona mean in Hawaiian?
Onaona is a Hawaiian girl name that means soft fragrance, gentle and attractive. The name comes from onaona (softly fragrant). It is pronounced oh-nah-OH-nah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Onaona belongs with other Hawaiian names about beauty, gentle and flower.
The words inside Onaona
onaona means softly fragrant and appears in 2 Hawaiian names, among them Keonaona.
How to pronounce Onaona
Say every vowel. The vowels in Onaona are o as in “go”, a as in “father”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Onaona a boy or girl name?
Onaona is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Onaona is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Onaona, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Onaona?
Onaona is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.