What does hauʻoli mean in Hawaiian?
Hauʻoli is happiness — the ordinary everyday word, the one in Hauʻoli Lā Hānau, happy birthday. It is cheerful rather than profound, and is given as a name for exactly that.
Say it how-OH-lee. 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 hauʻoli is part of 1 names: 0 begin with it, 0 end with it, and 1 carry it elsewhere. They split evenly between girls and boys, and all of them sit in the group of Hawaiian names meaning joy.