What does Kaʻeo mean in Hawaiian?
Kaʻeo is a Hawaiian boy name that means zealous, full of knowledge. The name comes from kaʻeo (zealous, full). It is pronounced kah-EH-oh, with 2 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kaʻeo belongs with other Hawaiian names about wisdom and strength.
The words inside Kaʻeo
kaʻeo means full, zealous and appears in 2 Hawaiian names, among them Kaʻeokūlani.
How to pronounce Kaʻeo
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kaʻeo are a as in “father”, e as in “bet”, o as in “go”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in Kaʻeo is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kaʻeo a boy or girl name?
Kaʻeo is listed here as a boy's name. Of the 346 U.S. babies given it, 0% were girls and 100% boys.
How often Kaʻeo is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 346 U.S. babies named Kaʻeo from 1979 to 2023, all boys, counted as Kaeo because the records drop the ʻokina and kahakō. It appears in 32 of those 45 years. Its peak was 2014, with 19. The 2014 to 2023 total of 149 is fewer than in all earlier years combined. In Hawaiʻi itself, 165 babies born in the state were named Kaʻeo from 1979 to 2021, with a peak of 12 in 2017. 62 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Kaʻeo?
Kaʻeo is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.