What does Kaʻohu mean in Hawaiian?
Kaʻohu is a Hawaiian unisex name that means the mist, the fog. The name comes from ka (the) + ʻohu (mist). It is pronounced kah-OH-hoo, with 2 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kaʻohu belongs with other Hawaiian names about rain and water.
The words inside Kaʻohu
ʻohu means mist, light cloud and appears in 2 Hawaiian names, among them Leiʻohu.
How to pronounce Kaʻohu
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kaʻohu are a as in “father”, o as in “go”, u as “oo”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in Kaʻohu is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kaʻohu a boy or girl name?
Kaʻohu is unisex. Hawaiian has no grammatical gender, and most traditional names were given to any child.
How often Kaʻohu is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Kaʻohu, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Kaʻohu?
Kaʻohu has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.