What does Ehukai mean in Hawaiian?
Ehukai is a Hawaiian unisex name that means sea spray. The name comes from ehu (spray) + kai (sea). It is pronounced eh-hoo-KYE, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Ehukai belongs with other Hawaiian names about ocean and water.
The words inside Ehukai
ehu means spray, mist and appears in 3 Hawaiian names, among them ʻEhu, Kaʻehu.
kai means sea, seawater and appears in 12 Hawaiian names, among them Kai, Kailani, Kaimana, ʻAukai.
Ehukai as a place name
ʻEhukai is also a beach on Oʻahu, where the name is read as sea spray, the beach at the Banzai Pipeline. Place names and given names draw on the same words, so the meanings usually overlap but are not always identical. The page on what ʻEhukai means has the full story, and Hawaiian town and beach names covers the rest.
How to pronounce Ehukai
Say every vowel. The vowels in Ehukai are e as in “bet”, u as “oo”, a as in “father”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Ehukai a boy or girl name?
Ehukai is unisex. Hawaiian has no grammatical gender, and most traditional names were given to any child.
How often Ehukai is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Ehukai, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Ehukai?
Ehukai is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.