What does Kaʻōnohi mean in Hawaiian?
Kaʻōnohi is a Hawaiian unisex name that means the eyeball of the sun, the sun's core. The name comes from ka (the) + ʻōnohi (eyeball, center). It is pronounced kah-OH-noh-hee, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kaʻōnohi belongs with other Hawaiian names about sun and light.
The words inside Kaʻōnohi
ʻōnohi means eyeball, centre.
How to pronounce Kaʻōnohi
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kaʻōnohi are a as in “father”, o as in “go”, i as “ee”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in Kaʻōnohi 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 Kaʻōnohi a boy or girl name?
Kaʻōnohi is unisex. Hawaiian has no grammatical gender, and most traditional names were given to any child.
How often Kaʻōnohi is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Kaʻōnohi, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Kaʻōnohi?
Kaʻōnohi is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.