Hoku-O-Ka-Lani as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Hoku-O-Ka-Lani

What is the meaning of the name Hoku-O-Ka-Lani ?

The baby name Hoku-O-Ka-Lani is a Female name and is pronounced hoh-koo oh kah LAH-nee (IPA: /ˈho.ku o ka ˈla.ni/).

Hoku-O-Ka-Lani is Hawaiian in Origin.

Hoku-O-Ka-Lani is a modern, hyphenated rendering of the Hawaiian phrase Hōkū o ka Lani: hōkū ‘star’ + o ka ‘of the’ + lani ‘heaven, sky; high-ranking, royal,’ giving “star of the heavens” or “star of royalty.” The name belongs to a broader family of hōkū- names celebrating celestial guidance and chiefly prestige.

As a personal name, Hōkūokalani and its spaced form appear in 19th–20th‑century mele and ali‘i epithets and have been adopted as given or middle names in contemporary Hawaiian families and the diaspora. Spelling variants include Hōkū o ka Lani, Hōkūokalani (solid), Hokuokalani (no diacritics), and the shortened Hoku or Lani; related Hokulani (“heavenly star”) is close in sense but grammatically different. Because Hawaiian orthography carries meaning, use of the kahakō in Hōkū is recommended.

⚙ We have no record of Hoku-O-Ka-Lani in any national birth registry or name dataset. It's the kind of name that tends to be rare, regional, or newly made up. Whichever it is, scarcely anyone else carries it.