What does Kamaʻāina mean in Hawaiian?
Kamaʻāina is a Hawaiian unisex name that means native-born, child of the land. The name comes from kama (child) + ʻāina (land). It is pronounced kah-mah-AH-ee-nah, with 4 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kamaʻāina belongs with other Hawaiian names about earth and love.
The words inside Kamaʻāina
kama means child, person and appears in 4 Hawaiian names, among them Kamalani, Kama, Kamalei.
ʻāina means land, earth and appears in 2 Hawaiian names, among them ʻĀina.
How to pronounce Kamaʻāina
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kamaʻāina are a as in “father”, i as “ee”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in Kamaʻāina is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. A vowel with a line over it (kahakō) is held slightly longer. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kamaʻāina a boy or girl name?
Kamaʻāina is unisex. Hawaiian has no grammatical gender, and most traditional names were given to any child.
How often Kamaʻāina is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Kamaʻāina, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Kamaʻāina?
Kamaʻāina is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.