Kekipi as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Kekipi

What is the meaning of the name Kekipi ?

The baby name Kekipi is a Unisex name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced keh-KEE-pee (IPA: /keˈkipi/).

Kekipi is Hawaiian in Origin.

Kekipi is a Hawaiian given name built from ke, the definite article “the,” and kipi, “rebellion; to rebel,” yielding the sense “the rebel,” “defiant one,” or “nonconformist.” Pronounced keh-KEE-pee, it follows a common Hawaiian naming pattern that fuses ke with a noun of character or nature. The name is linguistically unisex, though it may lean masculine in contemporary use.

Use as a personal name is uncommon but culturally grounded: kipi appears frequently in 19th-century Hawaiian writings to denote uprisings, and lexical names of this type have long coexisted with nature- and virtue-based names. Kekipi has seen quiet modern revival alongside efforts to reclaim Hawaiian language and identity, sometimes chosen as a middle name. Variants and forms include Kipi (short form) and the spaced Ke Kipi; related “ke+” names such as Kekoa (“the warrior”) and Keahi (“the fire”) show the same structure.

⚙ Kekipi is absent from every birth registry and name dataset we follow. That usually points to a very rare, regional, or newly coined name. Whichever it is, scarcely anyone else carries it.