What does Pualani mean in Hawaiian?
Pualani is a Hawaiian girl name that means heavenly flower, royal offspring. The name comes from pua (flower, child) + lani (heaven, royal). It is pronounced poo-ah-LAH-nee, with 4 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Pualani belongs with other Hawaiian names about flower, heaven and royalty.
Pualani
Pualani is pua (flower, child) and lani (heaven, royal), the heavenly flower or royal child. It is one of the best-known Hawaiian flower names, and it has been in steady use for generations.
Its most celebrated bearer is Pualani Kanakaʻole Kanahele, the kumu hula and scholar from Hawaiʻi Island whose family's hula school, Hālau o Kekuhi, is known for its chants honouring Pele.
The words inside Pualani
pua means flower, blossom and appears in 10 Hawaiian names, among them Kapua, Pua, Puanani, Nāpua.
lani means sky, heaven and appears in 53 Hawaiian names, among them Kailani, Kalani, Leilani, Lani.
How to pronounce Pualani
Say every vowel. The vowels in Pualani are u as “oo”, a as in “father”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Pualani a boy or girl name?
Pualani is listed here as a girl's name. Of the 122 U.S. babies given it, 100% were girls and 0% boys.
How often Pualani is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 122 U.S. babies named Pualani from 1939 to 2023, all girls. It appears in 20 of those 85 years. Its peak was 1978, with 9. The 2014 to 2023 total of 10 is fewer than in all earlier years combined. In Hawaiʻi itself, 44 babies born in the state were named Pualani from 1975 to 2021, with a peak of 8 in 1978. No year after 2004 reached five births of one sex there.
How well recorded is Pualani?
Pualani has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.