What does hina mean in Hawaiian?
Hina is the silver-gray of age, and separately the verb to lean or fall over.
Hina is also one of the oldest and most widespread figures in Polynesian story — a goddess associated with the moon, with kapa beating, and in many tellings the mother of Māui. Versions of her name appear from Aotearoa to Tahiti.
Her name is why the word carries far more weight than its plain gloss suggests.
Say it HEE-nah. Every vowel is pronounced, and the capitalized syllable takes the stress. The pronunciation guide covers the rules.
On this site hina is part of 2 names: 0 begin with it, 0 end with it, and 2 carry it elsewhere. Most are girl names, and all of them sit in the group of Hawaiian names meaning moon.