What does Kamea mean in Hawaiian?
Kamea is a Hawaiian unisex name that means the one and only, the precious one. The name comes from ka (the) + mea (thing, person). It is pronounced kah-MEH-ah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kamea belongs with other Hawaiian names about love.
The words inside Kamea
mea means thing, person, one who and appears in 4 Hawaiian names, among them Haumea, Kameāloha, Waimea.
How to pronounce Kamea
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kamea are a as in “father”, e as in “bet”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kamea a boy or girl name?
Kamea is listed here as unisex. Of the 1,045 U.S. babies given it, 100% were girls and 0% boys.
How often Kamea is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 1,045 U.S. babies named Kamea from 1982 to 2023 (1,040 girls, 5 boys). It appears in 29 of those 42 years. Its peak was 2010, with 67. The 2014 to 2023 total of 351 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 Kamea?
Kamea is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.