Meaning and background
The story behind Lihue
Lihue is the familiar unmarked spelling of Līhuʻe, the town on the Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi. A local history source explicitly glosses the Hawaiian place name as “cold chill” and describes the development of the town as a county seat. That is a place-name translation rather than evidence of a traditional personal given name. The original diacritics matter for representing Hawaiian spelling accurately.
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Recorded as a dog’s name
Lihue appears in 3 dog licence records in the 2022 New York City dataset.
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Pronunciation and rhythm
/lɪhweɪ/
US English sound sequence, converted from the CMU dictionary. Stress marks are shown separately.
Stress on the second syllable in the recorded US readings.
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/lɪhweɪ/ · primary stress on syllable 2L IH0 HH W EY1
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Sources and research notes (2)
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene NYC Dog Licensing Dataset — all seven available extract years, retrieved 24 October 2026 — Recorded name spellings in NYC licence-period rows, extract years 2016–2018, 2022–2024 and 2026. Evidence selects one stated year per name. Annual snapshots overlap; never sum them as unique dogs. No national popularity, etymology or owner naming-intent claim.
- Carnegie Mellon University / CMU Sphinx maintainers CMU US English Pronouncing Dictionary — US English dictionary readings; not owner-specific or exhaustive multilingual pronunciation
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