What does Kona mean in Hawaiian?
Kona is a Hawaiian unisex name that means leeward, the leeward wind. The name comes from kona (leeward side). It is pronounced KOH-nah, with 2 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Kona belongs with other Hawaiian names about wind and nature.
The words inside Kona
kona means leeward, the dry side.
Kona as a place name
Kona is also a town on Hawaiʻi, where the name is read as leeward, the dry sunny side. Place names and given names draw on the same words, so the meanings usually overlap but are not always identical. The page on what Kona means has the full story, and Hawaiian town and beach names covers the rest.
How to pronounce Kona
Say every vowel. The vowels in Kona are o as in “go”, a as in “father”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Kona a boy or girl name?
Kona is listed here as unisex. Of the 636 U.S. babies given it, 36% were girls and 64% boys.
How often Kona is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 636 U.S. babies named Kona from 1963 to 2023 (228 girls, 408 boys). It appears in 33 of those 61 years. Its peak was 2012, with 39. The 2014 to 2023 total of 286 is fewer than in all earlier years combined. In Hawaiʻi itself, 34 babies born in the state were named Kona from 2003 to 2021, with a peak of 7 in 2003. 5 were born there from 2012 to 2021.
How well recorded is Kona?
Kona is built from vocabulary recorded in Pukui–Elbert, the standard Hawaiian dictionary, but it has no entry among documented Hawaiian given names.