What does Kama mean in Hawaiian?
Kama is a Hawaiian boy name that means child, person. The name comes from kama (child, person). It is pronounced KAH-mah, with 2 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kama belongs with other Hawaiian names about love.
The words inside Kama
kama means child, person and appears in 4 Hawaiian names, among them Kamalani, Kamalei, Kamaʻāina.
How to pronounce Kama
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kama are a as in “father”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kama a boy or girl name?
Kama is listed here as a boy's name. Of the 710 U.S. babies given it, 100% were girls and 0% boys.
How often Kama is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 710 U.S. babies named Kama from 1954 to 2023, all girls. It appears in 49 of those 70 years. No year since 2012 has five or more babies of either sex given it. In the Hawaiʻi records it never reaches five births of one sex in a year, the level at which a name is listed. Although it is listed here as a boy's name, more girls than boys have been given it in the U.S.
How well recorded is Kama?
Kama has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.