What does Kanoe mean in Hawaiian?
Kanoe is a Hawaiian girl name that means the mist. The name comes from ka (the) + noe (mist). It is pronounced kah-NOH-eh, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kanoe belongs with other Hawaiian names about rain and water.
Kanoe, the mist
Kanoe is ka (the) and noe, the fine mist or misty rain that settles over upland valleys. Hawaiian distinguishes many kinds of rain and mist by place and texture, and noe is the gentle, drifting kind.
It is the shortest of the mist names. Add lani and it becomes Kanoelani, the heavenly mist, and without the article Noelani. Kanoe on its own is used for both girls and boys.
The words inside Kanoe
noe means mist, fine rain and appears in 6 Hawaiian names, among them Noelani, Kanoelani, Lilinoe, Noe.
How to pronounce Kanoe
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kanoe are a as in “father”, o as in “go”, e as in “bet”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kanoe a boy or girl name?
Kanoe is listed here as a girl's name. Of the 86 U.S. babies given it, 100% were girls and 0% boys.
How often Kanoe is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 86 U.S. babies named Kanoe from 1981 to 2023, all girls. It appears in 14 of those 43 years. Its peak was 1983, with 9. The 2014 to 2023 total of 5 is fewer than in all earlier years combined. In Hawaiʻi itself, 46 babies born in the state were named Kanoe from 1983 to 2021, with a peak of 8 in 1983. No year after 2002 reached five births of one sex there.
How well recorded is Kanoe?
Kanoe is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.