What does Kauwela mean in Hawaiian?
Kauwela is a Hawaiian unisex name that means summer, the warm season. The name comes from kau (season) + wela (hot). It is pronounced kow-VEH-lah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kauwela belongs with other Hawaiian names about sun and nature.
The words inside Kauwela
kau means to place, to set and appears in 2 Hawaiian names, among them Kaleikaumaka.
wela means hot, heat.
How to pronounce Kauwela
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kauwela are a as in “father”, u as “oo”, e as in “bet”. A w after i or e is pronounced like a v. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kauwela a boy or girl name?
Kauwela is unisex. Hawaiian has no grammatical gender, and most traditional names were given to any child.
How often Kauwela is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Kauwela, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Kauwela?
Kauwela is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.