What does kāhili mean in Hawaiian?
A kāhili is a feather standard carried before a chief — a long pole topped with a cylinder of feathers. They marked rank in procession and still appear at state occasions in Hawaiʻi.
Say it kah-HEE-lee. Every vowel is pronounced, and the capitalized syllable takes the stress. A vowel with a line over it (kahakō) is held a little longer. The pronunciation guide covers the rules.
On this site kāhili 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 royalty.