What does Uʻi mean in Hawaiian?
Uʻi is a Hawaiian girl name that means youthful, beautiful. The name comes from uʻi (young beauty). It is pronounced OO-ee, with 2 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Uʻi belongs with other Hawaiian names about beauty.
The words inside Uʻi
uʻi means youthful, beautiful and appears in 5 Hawaiian names, among them Kauʻi, Uilama, Uʻilani, Kauʻilani.
How to pronounce Uʻi
Say every vowel. The vowels in Uʻi are u as “oo”, i as “ee”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in Uʻi is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Uʻi a boy or girl name?
Uʻi is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Uʻi is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Uʻi, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Uʻi?
Uʻi is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.