What does Puakenikeni mean in Hawaiian?
Puakenikeni is a Hawaiian girl name that means the ten-cent flower, a fragrant lei blossom. The name comes from pua (flower) + kenikeni (ten cents). It is pronounced poo-ah-keh-nee-KEH-nee, with 6 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Puakenikeni belongs with other Hawaiian names about flower.
The words inside Puakenikeni
pua means flower, blossom and appears in 10 Hawaiian names, among them Kapua, Pua, Pualani, Puanani.
kenikeni means ten cents, a dime.
How to pronounce Puakenikeni
Say every vowel. The vowels in Puakenikeni are u as “oo”, a as in “father”, e as in “bet”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Puakenikeni a boy or girl name?
Puakenikeni is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Puakenikeni is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Puakenikeni, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Puakenikeni?
Puakenikeni is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.