What does Kapua mean in Hawaiian?
Kapua is a Hawaiian unisex name that means the flower, the blossom. The name comes from ka (the) + pua (flower). It is pronounced kah-POO-ah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kapua belongs with other Hawaiian names about flower and nature.
Kapua, the flower
Kapua is ka (the) and pua. Pua is a flower or blossom, and in names it very often means a child or descendant too, the way English speaks of the flower of a family. Kapua can be heard as the flower or the child.
It is short and used for both girls and boys. Add lani and it becomes Kapualani, the heavenly flower, and drop the article for the plain Pua.
The words inside Kapua
pua means flower, blossom and appears in 10 Hawaiian names, among them Pua, Pualani, Puanani, Nāpua.
How to pronounce Kapua
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kapua are a as in “father”, u as “oo”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kapua a boy or girl name?
Kapua is unisex. Hawaiian has no grammatical gender, and most traditional names were given to any child.
How often Kapua is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Kapua, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Kapua?
Kapua has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.