What does Pauahi mean in Hawaiian?
Pauahi is a Hawaiian girl name that means the fire is out. The name comes from pau (finished) + ahi (fire). It is pronounced pow-AH-hee, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Bernice Pauahi Bishop (1831 to 1884) founded the Kamehameha Schools.
Pauahi belongs with other Hawaiian names about royalty and fire.
Bernice Pauahi Bishop
Bernice Pauahi Bishop was the great-granddaughter of Kamehameha I and the last direct descendant of his line. She declined the throne when it was offered to her, and on her death in 1884 left her lands — roughly nine per cent of the Hawaiian Islands — in trust to found schools for children of Hawaiian ancestry.
That trust became Kamehameha Schools, which remains among the wealthiest charitable trusts in the United States and educates thousands of students across three campuses.
The name means the fire is out, given after an aunt who survived a fire.
The words inside Pauahi
pau means finished, completed.
ahi means fire and appears in 3 Hawaiian names, among them Keahi, Keahilani.
How to pronounce Pauahi
Say every vowel. The vowels in Pauahi are a as in “father”, u as “oo”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Pauahi a boy or girl name?
Pauahi is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Pauahi is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Pauahi, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Pauahi?
Pauahi has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.