Kekona as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Kekona

What is the meaning of the name Kekona ?

The baby name Kekona is a Male name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced keh-KOH-nah (Hawaiian: ke-ko-na; IPA: /keˈkona/).

Kekona is Hawaiian in Origin.

Kekona is a modern Hawaiian unisex given name most commonly interpreted as “second” or “second-born.” It draws on Hawaiian numbering vocabulary, where forms built on lua/ʻelua (two) can mark order; in contemporary Hawaiian usage, kekona appears as an ordinal sense of “second,” and the name is often chosen to honor a second child, a second chance, or the next in a lineage. As with many Hawaiian names, it carries a gentle, relational nuance rather than a fixed gender.

Documented use as a given name has grown with the late-20th-century Hawaiian language and cultural renaissance, and it remains relatively uncommon outside Hawaiʻi and the diaspora. Variants and short forms include Kona (also an independent word/place-name meaning “leeward”), while related Hawaiian names with similar thematic intent include Mua (“first; ahead”). Note: Kekona is distinct from the popular name Kekoa (“the warrior”).

⚙ We have no record of Kekona in any national birth registry or name dataset. Names like this are usually very rare, tied to a particular region or tradition, or freshly invented. Whichever it is, scarcely anyone else carries it.