What does Kainoa mean in Hawaiian?
Kainoa is a Hawaiian unisex name that means the namesake, also read as the free sea. The name comes from ka (the) + inoa (name), or kai (sea) + noa (free). It is pronounced kye-NOH-ah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kainoa belongs with other Hawaiian names about ocean and freedom.
The words inside Kainoa
inoa means name and appears in 2 Hawaiian names, among them Nāinoa.
noa means free, released from kapu and appears in 3 Hawaiian names, among them Noa, Kanoa.
How to pronounce Kainoa
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kainoa are a as in “father”, i as “ee”, o as in “go”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kainoa a boy or girl name?
Kainoa is listed here as unisex. Of the 2,494 U.S. babies given it, 1% were girls and 99% boys.
How often Kainoa is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 2,494 U.S. babies named Kainoa from 1975 to 2023 (35 girls, 2,459 boys). It appears in 47 of those 49 years. Its peak was 2016, with 104. The 2014 to 2023 total of 899 is fewer than in all earlier years combined. In Hawaiʻi itself, 810 babies born in the state were named Kainoa from 1975 to 2021, with a peak of 35 in 2005. 169 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Kainoa?
Kainoa has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.