What does kini mean in Hawaiian?
Kini is a great number — formally forty thousand, and loosely a multitude, a host, a crowd beyond counting.
Hawaiian counted in fours and had specific large numbers: kini is forty thousand, lehu four hundred thousand. The phrase kini akua, the multitude of gods, uses it to mean innumerable rather than exactly forty thousand.
Kini is separately the Hawaiian form of the English name Jean or Jane.
Say it KEE-nee. Every vowel is pronounced, and the capitalized syllable takes the stress. The pronunciation guide covers the rules.
On this site kini is part of 1 names: 0 begin with it, 0 end with it, and 1 carry it elsewhere. Most are boy names, and all of them sit in the group of Hawaiian names meaning earth.