What does Wehi mean in Hawaiian?
Wehi is a Hawaiian girl name that means adornment, decoration. The name comes from wehi (ornament). It is pronounced VEH-hee, with 2 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Wehi belongs with other Hawaiian names about beauty.
The words inside Wehi
wehi means adornment, ornament and appears in 3 Hawaiian names, among them Kawehi, Uluwehi.
How to pronounce Wehi
Say every vowel. The vowels in Wehi are e as in “bet”, i as “ee”. A w after i or e is pronounced like a v. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Wehi a boy or girl name?
Wehi is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Wehi is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Wehi, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Wehi?
Wehi is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.