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Kawehi

#16,086 in 2025Girls' name

The + adornment

Kawehi has been given to 97 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #16,086 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Kawehi, 2025

1 in 663,000

Kawehi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kawehi: meaning, origin, and history

The + adornment

Hawaiian

What Kawehi means

Kawehi means “the + adornment”, associated with ka and wehi.

Origin, language, and formation

Kawehi is used in Hawaiian. Its origins include Hawaiian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hawaiian, Kawehi is pronounced /kaˈwe.hi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 97 girls were recorded with the name Kawehi between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1993; its best national rank was #9,097 in 1993.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kawehi?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,086
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kawehi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kawehi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kawehis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kawehi was born before 1999 — so the typical Kawehi is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
50.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
49.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
97
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1990s — 50.5% of all recorded uses (49).

Is Kawehi rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
55.6%
Peak was 1993 (9)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,097
1993

Spellings of Kawehi

Kawehi is not the most common spelling — Kathi is, with 54.2% against Kawehi's 0.52%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Kawehi is used

Across 1910–2025, Kawehi was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 7,143 girls, against 1 in 6,998 across all states with data.

1414 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 7,143

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Kawehi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kawehi by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,086
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#9,097
1993
Peak year
1993
9 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
97
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Kawehi

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Kawehi

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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