What does Kamakani mean in Hawaiian?
Kamakani is a Hawaiian unisex name that means the wind. The name comes from ka (the) + makani (wind). It is pronounced kah-mah-KAH-nee, with 4 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kamakani belongs with other Hawaiian names about wind.
The words inside Kamakani
makani means wind, breeze and appears in 2 Hawaiian names, among them Makani.
How to pronounce Kamakani
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kamakani are a as in “father”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kamakani a boy or girl name?
Kamakani is unisex. Hawaiian has no grammatical gender, and most traditional names were given to any child.
How often Kamakani is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 10 U.S. babies named Kamakani from 2006 to 2023, all boys. It appears in 2 of those 18 years. No year since 2013 has five or more babies of either sex given it. In Hawaiʻi itself, 10 babies born in the state were named Kamakani from 2006 to 2021, with a peak of 5 in 2006. 5 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Kamakani?
Kamakani is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.