What does Kawaiola mean in Hawaiian?
Kawaiola is a Hawaiian unisex name that means the water of life. The name comes from ka (the) + wai (water) + ola (life). It is pronounced kah-wye-OH-lah, with 4 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kawaiola belongs with other Hawaiian names about water and life.
Ka wai ola, the water of life
Kawaiola is ka wai ola, the water of life. The phrase is old: tradition tells of ka wai ola a Kāne, the living water of the god Kāne, a spring that could restore the dead. Later it was used in the Hawaiian Bible for the living water of the Gospel of John.
Wai is fresh water as opposed to kai, the sea, and doubled as waiwai it is the Hawaiian word for wealth, because fresh water was the foundation of it. Kawaiola joins that water to ola, life and health.
The words inside Kawaiola
wai means fresh water and appears in 9 Hawaiian names, among them Wailani, Kawai, Kawailani, Waiola.
ola means life, health, well-being and appears in 5 Hawaiian names, among them Keola, Ola, Waiola, Keolamau.
How to pronounce Kawaiola
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kawaiola are a as in “father”, i as “ee”, o as in “go”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kawaiola a boy or girl name?
Kawaiola is unisex. Hawaiian has no grammatical gender, and most traditional names were given to any child.
How often Kawaiola is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 5 U.S. babies named Kawaiola from 1999 to 2023, all boys. It appears in 1 of those 25 years. No year since 1999 has five or more babies of either sex given it. In the Hawaiʻi records it never reaches five births of one sex in a year, the level at which a name is listed.
How well recorded is Kawaiola?
Kawaiola is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.