What does Kauʻi mean in Hawaiian?
Kauʻi is a Hawaiian unisex name that means youthful beauty. The name comes from ka (the) + uʻi (youthful, beautiful). It is pronounced KOW-ee, with 2 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kauʻi belongs with other Hawaiian names about beauty.
The words inside Kauʻi
uʻi means youthful, beautiful and appears in 5 Hawaiian names, among them Uilama, Uʻilani, Kauʻilani, Uʻi.
How to pronounce Kauʻi
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kauʻi are a as in “father”, u as “oo”, i as “ee”. The ʻokina (ʻ) in Kauʻi is a short pause, like the break in “uh-oh”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kauʻi a boy or girl name?
Kauʻi is unisex. Hawaiian has no grammatical gender, and most traditional names were given to any child.
How often Kauʻi is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 16 U.S. babies named Kauʻi from 1963 to 2023, all girls, counted as Kaui because the records drop the ʻokina and kahakō. It appears in 3 of those 61 years. No year since 2006 has five or more babies of either sex given it. In Hawaiʻi itself, 5 babies born in the state were named Kauʻi from 1963 to 2021, with a peak of 5 in 1963. No year after 1963 reached five births of one sex there.
How well recorded is Kauʻi?
Kauʻi has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.