What does Kaleo mean in Hawaiian?
Kaleo is a Hawaiian unisex name that means the voice, the sound. The name comes from ka (the) + leo (voice). It is pronounced kah-LEH-oh, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kaleo belongs with other Hawaiian names about music.
The words inside Kaleo
leo means voice, sound, tone and appears in 3 Hawaiian names, among them Kaleolani, Leolani.
How to pronounce Kaleo
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kaleo are a as in “father”, e as in “bet”, o as in “go”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kaleo a boy or girl name?
Kaleo is listed here as unisex. Of the 1,785 U.S. babies given it, 0% were girls and 100% boys.
How often Kaleo is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 1,785 U.S. babies named Kaleo from 1971 to 2023, all boys. It appears in 49 of those 53 years. Its peak came in 2023, with 137, and 986 were born from 2014 to 2023. In Hawaiʻi itself, 229 babies born in the state were named Kaleo from 1974 to 2021, with a peak of 14 in 2017. 57 were born there from 2012 to 2021. It is listed here as unisex, but every recorded U.S. birth has been a boy.
How well recorded is Kaleo?
Kaleo has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.