Entry № 7735 · Hawaiian origin

Ohana Ohana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ oh-HAH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hawaiian
Meaning
"Family (Disney's Lilo and Stitch)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Hawaiian)

A name that means "family (disney's lilo and stitch)".

Ohana is from the Hawaiian ʻohana (family — both extended kin and chosen family). "ʻOhana means family. Project Ohana — Hawaiian community initiatives. Ohana Resort — modern Hawaiian hospitality. Auntie Ohana — Native Hawaiian tradition.

Family. Disney's iconic Lilo and Stitch line — "ʻOhana means family. Nobody gets left behind or forgotten."

The name in its native script.

ʻOhana
Transliteration
ʻOhana
Pronunciation
/ oʊˈhɑː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ohana stands.

Ohana does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Ohanas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Ohana
Disney's Lilo and Stitch.
2002

Names connected to Ohana.

The number behind Ohana.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ohana reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.