What does makoa mean in Hawaiian?
Makoa is courage without hesitation — fearless, aggressive in the sense of not flinching. It also described a swift runner, the messengers who carried word between districts.
Say it mah-KOH-ah. Every vowel is pronounced, and the capitalized syllable takes the stress. The pronunciation guide covers the rules.
On this site makoa is part of 2 names: 1 begin with it, 0 end with it, and 1 carry it elsewhere. They split evenly between girls and boys, and all of them sit in the group of Hawaiian names meaning warrior.