What does Kahōkū mean in Hawaiian?
Kahōkū is a Hawaiian unisex name that means the star. The name comes from ka (the) + hōkū (star). It is pronounced kah-HOH-koo, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kahōkū belongs with other Hawaiian names about star, sky and light.
The words inside Kahōkū
hōkū means star and appears in 5 Hawaiian names, among them Hōkū, Hōkūlani, Hōkūao, Hōkūleʻa.
How to pronounce Kahōkū
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kahōkū are a as in “father”, o as in “go”, u as “oo”. A vowel with a line over it (kahakō) is held slightly longer. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kahōkū a boy or girl name?
Kahōkū is unisex. Hawaiian has no grammatical gender, and most traditional names were given to any child.
How often Kahōkū is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Kahōkū, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Kahōkū?
Kahōkū is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.