What does Wanaʻao mean in Hawaiian?
Wanaʻao is a Hawaiian unisex name that means dawn, daybreak. The name comes from wanaʻao (dawn). It is pronounced vah-nah-OW, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Wanaʻao belongs with other Hawaiian names about light and sun.
The words inside Wanaʻao
wanaʻao means dawn.
How to pronounce Wanaʻao
Say every vowel. The vowels in Wanaʻao are a as in “father”, o as in “go”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in Wanaʻao is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Wanaʻao a boy or girl name?
Wanaʻao is unisex. Hawaiian has no grammatical gender, and most traditional names were given to any child.
How often Wanaʻao is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Wanaʻao, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Wanaʻao?
Wanaʻao is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.