What does Peni mean in Hawaiian?
Peni is a Hawaiian boy name that means Hawaiian form of Ben. The name comes from borrowed from Benjamin. It is pronounced PEH-nee, with 2 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Peni belongs with other Hawaiian names about biblical.
Ben in Hawaiian
Peni is the Hawaiian form of Ben, the English name respelled with Hawaiian sounds. It is not a translation of what Ben means, but it has been used by Hawaiian families since the 1800s. The page on Ben in Hawaiian traces which letters changed and why.
How to pronounce Peni
Say every vowel. The vowels in Peni are e as in “bet”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Peni a boy or girl name?
Peni is listed here as a boy's name. Of the 149 U.S. babies given it, 97% were girls and 3% boys.
How often Peni is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 149 U.S. babies named Peni from 1946 to 2023 (144 girls, 5 boys). It appears in 20 of those 78 years. No year since 1995 has five or more babies of either sex given it. In the Hawaiʻi records it never reaches five births of one sex in a year, the level at which a name is listed. Although it is listed here as a boy's name, more girls than boys have been given it in the U.S.
How well recorded is Peni?
Peni has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.