What does Kahakai mean in Hawaiian?
Kahakai is a Hawaiian unisex name that means the seashore, the beach. The name comes from kahakai (shore). It is pronounced kah-hah-KYE, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kahakai belongs with other Hawaiian names about ocean and earth.
The words inside Kahakai
kahakai means shore, beach.
How to pronounce Kahakai
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kahakai are a as in “father”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kahakai a boy or girl name?
Kahakai is unisex. Hawaiian has no grammatical gender, and most traditional names were given to any child.
How often Kahakai is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Kahakai, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Kahakai?
Kahakai is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.