What does Kamaki mean in Hawaiian?
Kamaki is a Hawaiian boy name that means Hawaiian form of Thomas. It is pronounced kah-MAH-kee, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kamaki belongs with other Hawaiian names about biblical.
Thomas in Hawaiian
Thomas is an Aramaic name meaning twin, carried by one of the twelve apostles, the doubting Thomas of the Gospel of John. It spread through Christian Europe and arrived in Hawaiʻi with the Bible names of the 1800s.
Kamaki is the Hawaiian form. T became K, the silent h disappeared, S became K and a closing i was added. The result sounds nothing like Thomas to an English ear, which is typical of Hawaiian forms built by sound.
Thomas in Hawaiian
Kamaki is the Hawaiian form of Thomas, the English name respelled with Hawaiian sounds. It is not a translation of what Thomas means, but it has been used by Hawaiian families since the 1800s. See your name in Hawaiian for the full list of recorded forms.
How to pronounce Kamaki
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kamaki are a as in “father”, i as “ee”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kamaki a boy or girl name?
Kamaki is used mainly as a boy's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Kamaki is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Kamaki, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Kamaki?
Kamaki has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.