What does Kanoa mean in Hawaiian?
Kanoa is a Hawaiian boy name that means the free one. The name comes from ka (the) + noa (free). It is pronounced kah-NOH-ah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kanoa belongs with other Hawaiian names about freedom.
The words inside Kanoa
noa means free, released from kapu and appears in 3 Hawaiian names, among them Noa, Kainoa.
How to pronounce Kanoa
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kanoa are a as in “father”, o as in “go”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kanoa a boy or girl name?
Kanoa is listed here as a boy's name. Of the 823 U.S. babies given it, 1% were girls and 99% boys.
How often Kanoa is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 823 U.S. babies named Kanoa from 1971 to 2023 (6 girls, 817 boys). It appears in 39 of those 53 years. Its peak was 2010, with 47. The 2014 to 2023 total of 273 is fewer than in all earlier years combined. In Hawaiʻi itself, 269 babies born in the state were named Kanoa from 1971 to 2021, with a peak of 18 in 2007. 69 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Kanoa?
Kanoa has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.