What does ʻili mean in Hawaiian?
ʻIli is skin — of a person, a fruit, or the surface of anything. It is also a land division: an ʻili was a strip of ground inside an ahupuaʻa, held by a family and running from the uplands toward the sea.
Say it EE-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 ʻili is part of 1 names: 0 begin with it, 1 end with it. Most are boy names, and all of them sit in the group of Hawaiian names meaning earth.