What does ʻena mean in Hawaiian?
ʻEna is a glowing heat — the red of hot stone, of embers, of a face flushed with anger. It also describes the reddish tint sometimes seen in Hawaiian hair.
Say it EH-nah. Every vowel is pronounced, and the capitalized syllable takes the stress. The ʻokina (ʻ) is a short catch in the voice, like the break in “uh-oh”. The pronunciation guide covers the rules.
On this site ʻena is part of 1 names: 0 begin with it, 1 end with it. They split evenly between girls and boys, and all of them sit in the group of Hawaiian names meaning fire.