What does ʻiʻiwi mean in Hawaiian?
The ʻiʻiwi is a scarlet honeycreeper with a long curved bill shaped for the lobelia flowers it evolved alongside. Its feathers went into the chiefly cloaks. It is now threatened, pushed upslope by mosquito-borne disease.
Say it ee-EE-vee. 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 ʻiʻiwi is part of 1 names: 0 begin with it, 0 end with it, and 1 carry it elsewhere. Most are girl names, and all of them sit in the group of Hawaiian names meaning bird.