Liliʻuokalani was born Lydia Liliʻu Loloku Walania Kamakaʻeha on September 2, 1838, to Analea Keohokālole and Caesar Kapaʻakea. She was born in the large grass hut of her maternal grandfather, ʻAikanaka, at the base of Punchbowl Crater in Honolulu on the island of Oʻahu. According to Hawaiian custom, she was named after an event linked to her birth. At the time she was born, "Kuhina Nui" (regent) Elizabeth Kīnaʻu had developed an eye infection. She named the child using the words; "liliʻu" (smarting), "loloku" (tearful), "walania" (a burning pain) and "kamakaʻeha" (sore eyes). Upon her baptism by Reverend Levi Chamberlain, she was given the Christian name Lydia.