What does Waipiʻo mean in Hawaiian?
Waipiʻo is a Hawaiian unisex name that means curved water, the sacred valley of Hawaiʻi Island. The name comes from wai (water) + piʻo (arched). It is pronounced wye-PEE-oh, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Waipiʻo belongs with other Hawaiian names about water and earth.
The words inside Waipiʻo
wai means fresh water and appears in 9 Hawaiian names, among them Wailani, Kawai, Kawailani, Waiola.
piʻo means arch, arched and appears in 3 Hawaiian names, among them Kapiʻolani, Piʻolani.
How to pronounce Waipiʻo
Say every vowel. The vowels in Waipiʻo are a as in “father”, i as “ee”, o as in “go”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in Waipiʻo is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Waipiʻo a boy or girl name?
Waipiʻo is unisex. Hawaiian has no grammatical gender, and most traditional names were given to any child.
How often Waipiʻo is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Waipiʻo, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Waipiʻo?
Waipiʻo is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.