Kahea as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Kahea

What is the meaning of the name Kahea ?

The baby name Kahea is a Unisex name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced kah-HEH-ah.

Kahea is Hawaiian in Origin.

Kahea is a Hawaiian given name derived from kāhea, meaning “to call, to announce, to summon,” and as a noun, “a call or summons,” including the tolling of a bell or an alarm. Pronounced KAA-heh-ah, it is used for all genders and carries connotations of voice, invitation, vocation, and leadership - evoking the idea of calling others together or calling forth one’s purpose.

In Hawaiian practice, a kāhea is the call that begins a chant or a hula verse, and the word appears frequently in 19th‑century Hawaiian-language newspapers and mele. As a personal name, Kahea is attested in Hawaiʻi from the late 1800s and remains in use locally and in the diaspora. Variant orthography Kāhea reflects modern Hawaiian diacritics; the anglicized Kahea omits them. Elaborations include Kāhealani/Kahealani (“heavenly calling”) and Kāheaokalani/Kaheaokalani (“the call of the heavens”). Related echoes exist across Polynesian languages (e.g., Māori kāea “caller”), though naming customs differ.