Entry № 5082 · Hawaiian origin

Kaahumanu Kaahumanu — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kah-ah-hoo-MAH-noo /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hawaiian
Meaning
"Cloak of feathers (Kamehameha I's favorite wife and regent)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Modern (Hawaiian)

A name that means "cloak of feathers (kamehameha i's favorite wife and regent)".

Kaʻahumanu (Hawaiian, ka ʻahu manu, "the feather cloak") was the favorite wife of King Kamehameha I — the unifier of the Hawaiian Islands — and queen-regent (kuhina nui) of the Kingdom of Hawaii from 1819 to 1832.

Cloak of feathers.

The name in its native script.

Kaʻahumanu
Transliteration
Kaʻahumanu
Pronunciation
/ ˌkɑː.ə.huːˈmɑː.nuː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kaahumanu stands.

Kaahumanu does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Kaahumanus before her.

Real people
Queen Kaʻahumanu
Regent of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
c. 1768 – 1832
In fiction
Kaahumanu
Hawaiian historical narrative.

Names connected to Kaahumanu.

The number behind Kaahumanu.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kaahumanu reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.