What does Kawehi mean in Hawaiian?
Kawehi is a Hawaiian girl name that means the adornment. The name comes from ka (the) + wehi (ornament). It is pronounced kah-VEH-hee, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kawehi belongs with other Hawaiian names about beauty.
The words inside Kawehi
wehi means adornment, ornament and appears in 3 Hawaiian names, among them Uluwehi, Wehi.
How to pronounce Kawehi
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kawehi are a as in “father”, e as in “bet”, i as “ee”. A w after i or e is pronounced like a v. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kawehi a boy or girl name?
Kawehi is listed here as a girl's name. Of the 92 U.S. babies given it, 100% were girls and 0% boys.
How often Kawehi is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 92 U.S. babies named Kawehi from 1992 to 2023, all girls. It appears in 13 of those 32 years. Its peak was 1993, with 9. The 2014 to 2023 total of 14 is fewer than in all earlier years combined. In Hawaiʻi itself, 66 babies born in the state were named Kawehi from 1992 to 2021, with a peak of 9 in 1993. 6 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Kawehi?
Kawehi has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.