What does Kaʻohe mean in Hawaiian?
Kaʻohe is a Hawaiian unisex name that means the bamboo. The name comes from ka (the) + ʻohe (bamboo). It is pronounced kah-OH-heh, with 2 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kaʻohe belongs with other Hawaiian names about tree and nature.
The words inside Kaʻohe
ʻohe means bamboo and appears in 2 Hawaiian names, among them Kāneʻohe.
How to pronounce Kaʻohe
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kaʻohe are a as in “father”, o as in “go”, e as in “bet”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in Kaʻohe is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kaʻohe a boy or girl name?
Kaʻohe is unisex. Hawaiian has no grammatical gender, and most traditional names were given to any child.
How often Kaʻohe is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Kaʻohe, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Kaʻohe?
Kaʻohe is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.