What does Kimona mean in Hawaiian?
Kimona is a Hawaiian boy name that means Simon. The name comes from Simona (Simon). It is pronounced kee-MOH-nah, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kimona belongs with other Hawaiian names about biblical.
Simon in Hawaiian
Simon is the Greek form of the Hebrew Shimʻon, usually explained as he has heard. It was the name of the apostle better known as Peter and of several other figures in the Gospels, which kept it in Christian use.
Kimona is the Hawaiian form. Hawaiian has no S, so it became K, and a final a was added to close the name, turning the two syllables of Simon into three.
How to pronounce Kimona
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kimona are i as “ee”, o as in “go”, a as in “father”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kimona a boy or girl name?
Kimona is used mainly as a boy's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Kimona is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 11 U.S. babies named Kimona from 1978 to 2023, all girls. It appears in 2 of those 46 years. No year since 1979 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. Although it is listed here as a boy's name, more girls than boys have been given it in the U.S.
How well recorded is Kimona?
Kimona has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.