What does Pueo mean in Hawaiian?
Pueo is a Hawaiian unisex name that means the Hawaiian owl, a guardian spirit. The name comes from pueo (short-eared owl). It is pronounced poo-EH-oh, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Pueo belongs with other Hawaiian names about bird and mythology.
The words inside Pueo
pueo means Hawaiian short-eared owl.
How to pronounce Pueo
Say every vowel. The vowels in Pueo are u as “oo”, e as in “bet”, o as in “go”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Pueo a boy or girl name?
Pueo is unisex. Hawaiian has no grammatical gender, and most traditional names were given to any child.
How often Pueo is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Pueo, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Pueo?
Pueo is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.