What does Kaʻahupāhau mean in Hawaiian?
Kaʻahupāhau is a Hawaiian girl name that means the shark goddess who guards Pearl Harbor. The name comes from legendary name. It is pronounced kah-ah-hoo-PAH-how, with 5 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kaʻahupāhau belongs with other Hawaiian names about mythology and ocean.
How to pronounce Kaʻahupāhau
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kaʻahupāhau are a as in “father”, u as “oo”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in Kaʻahupāhau is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. A vowel with a line over it (kahakō) is held slightly longer. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kaʻahupāhau a boy or girl name?
Kaʻahupāhau is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Kaʻahupāhau is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Kaʻahupāhau, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Kaʻahupāhau?
Kaʻahupāhau is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.