What does Pono mean in Hawaiian?
Pono is a Hawaiian unisex name that means righteousness, goodness, balance. The name comes from pono (proper, moral, in harmony). It is pronounced POH-noh, with 2 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Pono belongs with other Hawaiian names about wisdom and peace.
The words inside Pono
pono means goodness, righteousness, balance and appears in 3 Hawaiian names, among them Kapono, Kūpono.
How to pronounce Pono
Say every vowel. The vowels in Pono are o as in “go”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Pono a boy or girl name?
Pono is listed here as unisex. Of the 25 U.S. babies given it, 0% were girls and 100% boys.
How often Pono is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 25 U.S. babies named Pono from 1996 to 2023, all boys. It appears in 4 of those 28 years. No year since 2007 has five or more babies of either sex given it. In Hawaiʻi itself, 21 babies born in the state were named Pono from 1996 to 2021, with a peak of 6 in 2007. No year after 2007 reached five births of one sex there.
How well recorded is Pono?
Pono is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.