What does Kaʻehu mean in Hawaiian?
Kaʻehu is a Hawaiian boy name that means the spray. The name comes from ka (the) + ʻehu (sea spray, reddish hair). It is pronounced kah-EH-hoo, with 2 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kaʻehu belongs with other Hawaiian names about ocean.
Sea spray and sandy hair
Kaʻehu is ka (the) and ʻehu. ʻEhu is the spray thrown up by breaking surf, and it is also the word for hair with a reddish or sandy tint, a colouring that runs in some Hawaiian families and was admired.
So the name can point to the sea or to a family trait. It is a boy's name here, and the ʻokina before ehu is a real consonant, said as a brief stop.
The words inside Kaʻehu
ehu means spray, mist and appears in 3 Hawaiian names, among them ʻEhu, Ehukai.
How to pronounce Kaʻehu
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kaʻehu are a as in “father”, e as in “bet”, u as “oo”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in Kaʻehu is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kaʻehu a boy or girl name?
Kaʻehu is used mainly as a boy's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Kaʻehu is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Kaʻehu, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Kaʻehu?
Kaʻehu has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.