Talk:Hawaiian name

'okina
I would suggest two things: 1) Do not treat " &lsquo; " as a separate letter for listing, as most users coming here will not know if a name starts with the &lsquo;okina. Hawaiian-English dictionaries do not treat the &lsquo;okina that way (&lsquo;a comes after a). 2) No need for an "unsorted" list. Just put the name in the proper place in the list and maybe do not bold if lacking information about it (like proper Hawaiian spelling). Names unbolded are essentially suggestions for further development, but are presumably "real" Hawaiian names in use - Marshman 18:17, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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External link
I added the external link "Hawaiian Naming Practices" in August 2006 and it was there until JereKrischel deleted it in February (together with another link that was clearly nonsense).The link I put back contains original material not found in books and gives useful background information about Hawaiian names in the nineteenth century, and the formation of surnames.It is one of the sources of this article (that is practically written by me). It is not commercial.If this link isn't acceptable, I'm mystified why the Star Bulletin link(also added by me) is?

By the way, I do appreciate it that somebody wipes out spam links and silly contributions to this article .There is a lot of nonsense written about Hawaiian names in the web.

Makaokalani 13:38, 12 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Mahalo Makaokalani for your comment. Could it be more appropriate to cite the article you're mentioning, rather than simply external linking it?  It seems that at least some of that content could be included here, with a simple:


 * It seems like it isn't a very reliable source all in all, even though some of the information is interesting. I'd be curious as to who "Marina Kaina" referenced by the article really is, and where "Target Your Hawaiian Genealogy and others as well" was ever published.  Perhaps we could find better sources? --JereKrischel 06:21, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

I haven't seen the publication so I cannot use it as a reference. Can you find it in book form? You judge the link by its author, I judge it by contents. The most convincing part of the website "Hawaiian Roots" is a list of Ka Hae Hawaii obituaries 1857-61. Somebody who knows Hawaiian has been alphabetizing the names, but sadly stopped half way through. Completed, it would be a fine sample of nineteenth-century Hawaiian names. Maybe you don't find them as fascinating as I do?

I will be delighted if you find a better external link. There isn't much choice. See User_talk:Marshman Almost anything worthwhile written about Hawaiian names seems to go back to Pukui&Elbert(&Mo'okini).Patrick Ka'ano'i&Robert Snakenberg have written a book translating English names into Hawaiian, but the way I see it this article tells about actual usage, it's not a list of name suggestions.Makaokalani 13:41, 26 March 2007 (UTC)


 * One of the best sources and the one I've been using was from Mary K. Pukui's book NANA I KE KUMU vol. 1., page 94 where she goes into the various naming practices. In my 23 years of genealogy research into many different parts of the Hawaiian islands, and specifically going through many old Hawaiian newspapers like Ka Makaainana, Ka Hae Hawaii, Ke Kuokoa and a few others where they list many genealogical information, genealogy trees and birth/marriage/death announcements, I am well accustomed and semi-familiar with specific geographic family names, both given names and surnames. Mamoahina (talk) 15:27, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia or Wiktionary
I'm mystified by these Wiktionary tags. Can somebody explain where should this article be, in the Wikipedia or Wiktionary?

I could split in into two parts,"Hawaiian name" and "List of Hawaiian names", with a little editing.If the "List of Hawaiian names" must go into the Wiktionary (which is a bad idea in my opinion) could some technically gifted person fix the 'okina template in the Transwiki version and change its name into "Appendix:Hawaiian given names"? I dare not delete anything from either side before the Wiktionary version is readable.

This name list includes etymologies, a rough estimate of the popularity of each name,notes on well-known name bearers,links to Wikipedia articles on plants, history,etc. Meanwhile the "Given name appendices" in the Wiktionary are mostly just lists of names, sometimes with etymologies, but nothing extra. Suppose somebody decides that "This Hawaiian name list is too encyclopedic" and wipes out all the extra information?

Or are the Wiktionary name lists supposed to be edited to contain information like this one? I could edit many of them, but what's the point? If you are really interested in, say, German names you can consult the German Wikipedia. Names in endangered languages deserve special treatment because there is no Hawaiian Wikipedia (that could be taken seriously).The Wiktionary starts from the premise that there is an established set of given names in every language. But Hawaiian names are still being made. How many do you want - I have a list of about 4,000? Have you tried making a list of all Chinese given names?

On the other hand there is not enough material to make an article on each name and a category. Besides a plain list of names tells you nothing. Names are most meaningful as a group,with explanations and data on their frequency.

Could the Wiktionary name lists be made more accessible? They are almost impossible to find. An ordinary Wiktionary user won't have any idea that they even exist. I don't like to throw my work down into a black hole.

I'll be here at the same time tomorrow.Makaokalani 11:08, 10 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm still not entirely certain myself what to do with all these lists. I originally wrote the first drafts of this list, and the lists of Hebrew names and Arabic names too.  The other lists were moved to Wiktionary appendices too, and I've never been clear on how to transwiki the Wikipedia name subject articles and the Wiktionary appendices with one another.  As for the okina template, I wrote that too&mdash;I can make sure it's copied over. - Gilgamesh 18:27, 11 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Wiktionary now has a corresponding okina template. - Gilgamesh 18:31, 11 April 2007 (UTC)


 * In my view this article should stay also in the Wikipedia. Some redundancy (the names with explanations) will not harm either Wikipedia nor Wiktionary. This list is definitely more than a dictionary entry (see also Talk:Hawaiian name/deletion). By the way there is a Hawaiian Wikipedia. --ThT 02:52, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

List of names?
I have a problem with "lists of names" (I mean people names): they can never be complete. I think some particularly dim people may become confused an believe if it's not on the list, it's not a Hawaiian name. The truth is, when you say "this is an list of Hawaiian names in an encyclopedia", you imply that it's a complete list, as encyclopedias are supposed to document as much as possible. Anyway, I changed the section title to "List of Common Hawaiian Names", as that's really what it is. The first line even states that it is only for names known to be possessed be a certain number of people. It is the nature of first names, especially nowadays, to be changed and altered as suit the chooser's whim, or made up from various sources. Making the list of common names eliminates the need to add anomalous names that are Hawaiian but not really used. Please discuss if you want to change it. Garnet avi (talk) 04:53, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Delete the "List of Hawaiian Names""/Third try
The name list was kept due to my stupid insistence. Now I've finally seen the light. Wiktionary:Appendix:Hawaiian given names is a better version of this name list. I've come to like the Wiktionary, and I've made many separate entries for Hawaiian names there. They can be linked to Wikipedia when needed. None of the other Wikipedia articles on names have lists of this kind; it's confusing, and an invitation to erratic changes that no one can control. For example, Kaniela has become Kaniala, and non-existent "data" has been added to some names. The only way to prevent that would be adding footnotes to all the 300+ names, doubling the size of the article which is over 39 kilobytes already. And who will check that each new name has the required 3 bearers? The Wiktionary version is easy to control since it is just a frequency report. Any new names can be added as separate words in the Wiktionary, and included in the Wiktionary:Category:Hawaiian given names.

I've checked the new names added since 2007, and made Wiktionary entries for the new Pane and Kahalaomāpuana. Kalokuokamaile might not meet the CFI, since it's restricted to one family only. Anybody who feels that his contribution has been overlooked can try adding it in the Wiktionary. Unless somebody makes a strong case for keeping, I will delete the list of names one week from now. The descriptive part (Meanings of Names to Popularity Surveys) remains in the Wikipedia. I'll add footnotes and new material then .--Makaokalani (talk) 13:20, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Kina'u
By the way, Queen Lili'uokalani was named after the event surrounding Kina'u's condition, not named by her. Kina'u was suffering from eye pain at that time, hence she was given both lili'u and ka maka 'eha. In her autobiography she mentioned how her brother King Kalakaua changed her name to Lili'uokalani. Mamoahina (talk) 15:18, 3 January 2013 (UTC)