What does Kahea mean in Hawaiian?
Kahea is a Hawaiian unisex name that means the call, the summons. The name comes from ka (the) + hea (to call). It is pronounced kah-HEH-ah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kahea belongs with other Hawaiian names about music.
The words inside Kahea
hea means to call, to summon and appears in 4 Hawaiian names, among them Anuhea, Healani, Kahealani.
How to pronounce Kahea
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kahea are a as in “father”, e as in “bet”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kahea a boy or girl name?
Kahea is unisex. Hawaiian has no grammatical gender, and most traditional names were given to any child.
How often Kahea is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 15 U.S. babies named Kahea from 1986 to 2023, all girls. It appears in 3 of those 38 years. Its peak was 1986, with 5. The 2014 to 2023 total of 10 is more than in all earlier years combined. In the Hawaiʻi records it never reaches five births of one sex in a year, the level at which a name is listed.
How well recorded is Kahea?
Kahea is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.