What does Kamalu mean in Hawaiian?
Kamalu is a Hawaiian unisex name that means the shelter, the peace. The name comes from ka (the) + malu (shelter, peace). It is pronounced kah-MAH-loo, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kamalu belongs with other Hawaiian names about peace.
The words inside Kamalu
malu means shade, shelter, protection, peace and appears in 5 Hawaiian names, among them Malu, Hoʻomalu, Kekaimalu, Malulani.
How to pronounce Kamalu
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kamalu are a as in “father”, u as “oo”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kamalu a boy or girl name?
Kamalu is listed here as unisex. Of the 22 U.S. babies given it, 0% were girls and 100% boys.
How often Kamalu is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 22 U.S. babies named Kamalu from 2009 to 2023, all boys. It appears in 4 of those 15 years. Its peak was 2009, with 6. The 2014 to 2023 total of 11 is fewer than in all earlier years combined. In the Hawaiʻi records it never reaches five births of one sex in a year, the level at which a name is listed.
How well recorded is Kamalu?
Kamalu is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.