Hawaiian Name Generator

How this list was compiled: A list by a written rule, built on 2 October 2026. A name is listed when (1) it has a Hawaiian given-name entry in English Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Hawaiian_given_names, 350 single-word entries read that day); (2) the entry's etymology names the Hawaiian word or words the name is made of; and (3) every one of those words was found as a headword in the Hawaiian Dictionary of Mary Kawena Pukui and Samuel H. Elbert (1986), read on the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo's dictionary site (https://hilo.hawaii.edu/wehe/, the same day), with the entry's English gloss standing in that dictionary's definition. 136 names passed, and 7 of them were taken out at a second reading the same day, which leaves 129: 3 whose entry is marked as borrowed from an English name (Hale, Loke, Palapala), 3 whose gloss names magic, prayer or an angel, and 1 the entry marks as historical (Kamehameha). Left out before that: 113 entries that name no Hawaiian words (most are Hawaiian forms of English and Bible names), 53 with a word the dictionary search did not return, 16 whose gloss was not found in the dictionary's definition, 24 whose entry speaks of a god or of worship, and 5 whose gloss names a part of the body or a spirit. A card prints the words and the glosses as the name's Wiktionary entry gives them, and writes no meaning of its own; where an entry gives two readings the first is printed. A second pass looked each word up by its exact spelling and kept a name only when the dictionary has the word as a headword with the same ʻokina and kahakō; 1 name failed that and was left out. Whether a name is listed for girls, for boys or for both is the mark in the entry; a name whose entry calls the second use rare, uncommon or former is listed under the first only, and one the entry says is sometimes, occasionally or less commonly given to the other is listed for both. The Meaning groups are ours, set from the glosses: sea and water, sky, flowers and plants. The spelling with the ʻokina and the kahakō is the entry's; the plain spelling drops both. No speaker of Hawaiian has read the list. Family names are not listed. Licence: Names, words and glosses: English Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The Pukui and Elbert dictionary was used as a check only; nothing is copied from it. The rule and the groups are our own work.