What does Puanani mean in Hawaiian?
Puanani is a Hawaiian girl name that means beautiful flower. The name comes from pua (flower) + nani (beautiful). It is pronounced poo-ah-NAH-nee, with 4 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Puanani belongs with other Hawaiian names about flower and beauty.
The words inside Puanani
pua means flower, blossom and appears in 10 Hawaiian names, among them Kapua, Pua, Pualani, Nāpua.
nani means beauty, beautiful, glorious and appears in 6 Hawaiian names, among them Kanani, Nani, Haunani, Leinani.
How to pronounce Puanani
Say every vowel. The vowels in Puanani are u as “oo”, a as in “father”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Puanani a boy or girl name?
Puanani is listed here as a girl's name. Of the 67 U.S. babies given it, 100% were girls and 0% boys.
How often Puanani is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 67 U.S. babies named Puanani from 1956 to 2023, all girls. It appears in 11 of those 68 years. No year since 1994 has five or more babies of either sex given it. In Hawaiʻi itself, 9 babies born in the state were named Puanani from 1980 to 2021, with a peak of 9 in 1980. No year after 1980 reached five births of one sex there.
How well recorded is Puanani?
Puanani has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.