What does Kāne mean in Hawaiian?
Kāne is a Hawaiian boy name that means man, god of creation, light and fresh water. The name comes from kāne (man, male). It is pronounced KAH-neh, with 2 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kāne belongs with other Hawaiian names about mythology, light and water.
The words inside Kāne
kāne means man, male, husband and appears in 2 Hawaiian names, among them Kāneʻohe.
How to pronounce Kāne
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kāne are a as in “father”, e as in “bet”. A vowel with a line over it (kahakō) is held slightly longer. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kāne a boy or girl name?
Kāne is used mainly as a boy's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Kāne is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 18,103 U.S. babies named Kane since 1953, but that spelling is the SSA spelling Kane is mostly the Irish and English name, so the count says little about the Hawaiian name. In Hawaiʻi itself, 31 babies born in the state were named Kāne from 2014 to 2021, with a peak of 7 in 2016. 31 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Kāne?
Kāne has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.