What does Kāneʻohe mean in Hawaiian?
Kāneʻohe is a Hawaiian unisex name that means bamboo man. The name comes from kāne (man) + ʻohe (bamboo). It is pronounced kah-neh-OH-heh, with 4 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kāneʻohe belongs with other Hawaiian names about earth and tree.
The words inside Kāneʻohe
kāne means man, male, husband and appears in 2 Hawaiian names, among them Kāne.
ʻohe means bamboo and appears in 2 Hawaiian names, among them Kaʻohe.
Kāneʻohe as a place name
Kāneʻohe is also a town on Oʻahu, where the name is read as bamboo man, from a legend of a cruel husband. Place names and given names draw on the same words, so the meanings usually overlap but are not always identical. The page on what Kāneʻohe means has the full story, and Hawaiian town and beach names covers the rest.
How to pronounce Kāneʻohe
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kāneʻohe are a as in “father”, e as in “bet”, o as in “go”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in Kāneʻohe is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. A vowel with a line over it (kahakō) is held slightly longer. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kāneʻohe a boy or girl name?
Kāneʻohe is unisex. Hawaiian has no grammatical gender, and most traditional names were given to any child.
How often Kāneʻohe is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Kāneʻohe, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Kāneʻohe?
Kāneʻohe is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.