What does Kahekili mean in Hawaiian?
Kahekili is a Hawaiian boy name that means the thunder, the last independent king of Maui. The name comes from ka (the) + hekili (thunder). It is pronounced kah-heh-KEE-lee, with 4 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kahekili belongs with other Hawaiian names about royalty, warrior and sky.
The words inside Kahekili
hekili means thunder and appears in 2 Hawaiian names, among them Hekili.
How to pronounce Kahekili
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kahekili are a as in “father”, e as in “bet”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kahekili a boy or girl name?
Kahekili is listed here as a boy's name. Of the 43 U.S. babies given it, 0% were girls and 100% boys.
How often Kahekili is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 43 U.S. babies named Kahekili from 2009 to 2023, all boys. It appears in 7 of those 15 years. Its peak came in 2022, with 9, and 26 were born from 2014 to 2023. In Hawaiʻi itself, 15 babies born in the state were named Kahekili from 2009 to 2021, with a peak of 5 in 2009. 5 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Kahekili?
Kahekili is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.