What does Kepano mean in Hawaiian?
Kepano is a Hawaiian boy name that means Hawaiian form of Stephen. It is pronounced keh-PAH-noh, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kepano belongs with other Hawaiian names about royalty.
Stephen in Hawaiian
Stephen comes from the Greek Stephanos, crown or wreath. It spread through Christianity from Saint Stephen, remembered as the first Christian martyr, and it reached Hawaiʻi with the Bible names of the nineteenth century.
Kepano is the Hawaiian form. S and T both became K, the ph was written as p, and a closing vowel was added, since Hawaiian has none of those consonants and no word ends on a consonant. It covers Steven as well, because both spellings sound the same.
Steven in Hawaiian
Kepano is the Hawaiian form of Steven, the English name respelled with Hawaiian sounds. It is not a translation of what Steven means, but it has been used by Hawaiian families since the 1800s. The page on Steven in Hawaiian traces which letters changed and why.
How to pronounce Kepano
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kepano are e as in “bet”, a as in “father”, o as in “go”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kepano a boy or girl name?
Kepano is used mainly as a boy's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Kepano is given in the U.S.
No year from 1880 to 2023 saw five or more U.S. babies named Kepano, and it never reaches five in the Hawaiʻi records either, so it is rare as a first name.
How well recorded is Kepano?
Kepano has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.