What does ʻEwa mean in Hawaiian?
ʻEwa is a Hawaiian girl name that means Hawaiian form of חַוָּה. It is pronounced EH-vah, with 2 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
ʻEwa belongs with other Hawaiian names about biblical.
Eve in Hawaiian
ʻEwa is the Hawaiian form of Eve, the English name respelled with Hawaiian sounds. It is not a translation of what Eve means, but it has been used by Hawaiian families since the 1800s. The page on Eve in Hawaiian traces which letters changed and why.
ʻEwa as a place name
ʻEwa is also a town on Oʻahu, where the name is read as crooked, stray, from a legend of a lost stone. Place names and given names draw on the same words, so the meanings usually overlap but are not always identical. The page on what ʻEwa means has the full story, and Hawaiian town and beach names covers the rest.
How to pronounce ʻEwa
Say every vowel. The vowels in ʻEwa are e as in “bet”, a as in “father”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in ʻEwa is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. A w after i or e is pronounced like a v. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is ʻEwa a boy or girl name?
ʻEwa is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often ʻEwa is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 296 U.S. babies named Ewa since 1963, but that spelling is mostly the Polish form of Eve, so the count says little about the Hawaiian name.
How well recorded is ʻEwa?
ʻEwa has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.